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· 9/12/2008

Sanders v. Hayden

Citations

  • 544 F.3d 812
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 19984
  • 2008 WL 4206842

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the FLSA does not apply to a civil detainee committed as a sexually violent person under Wisconsin law
  • explaining that when a “secure treatment facility” requires civilly committed persons to work, “it is to offset some of the cost of keeping them . . .”
  • extending Vanskike to people “confined civilly as a sexually violent person”
  • extending Vanskike to people “confined civilly as a sexually violent person”
  • civilly committed individuals are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and cannot pursue claims against a detention facility for sub-minimum wages
  • \Prison and jail inmates are not covered by the FLSA.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Rovner, Wood

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