Rodriguez v. Whiting Farms, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court did not abuse its discretion when it awarded costs to non- prevailing indigent parties because the non-prevailing parties failed to offer a reason why the prevailing party should be penalized with a denial of costs
• specifying that exemptions are to be narrowly construed against the employers seeking to assert them
• specifying that exemptions are to be narrowly construed against the employers seeking to assert them
• affirming cost award against indigent plaintiffs where district court “concluded there was no reason defendants should be penalized” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• affirming an award of costs but noting that the “presentation of issues that are close and difficult” is a “circumstance[] in which a district court may properly exercise its discretion under Rule 54(d) to deny costs to a prevailing party.”
• “[E]xemptions under the FLSA are to be narrowly construed against the employers seeking to assert them and their application limited to those establishments plainly and unmistakably within their terms and spirit” (quotation omitted).

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).