Sandra Babcock v. Butler County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, under the FLSA, employees were not entitled to compensation during meal breaks where employees—rather than their employer—“receive[d] the predominant benefit of the time in question”
• noting that 29 C.F.R. § 785.15 and the associated regulations are interpretive regulations
• “this Court finds that deciding the Motion to Dismiss prior to the Motion for Conditional Class Certification is both judicially fair and efficient.”
• employer did not violate FLSA by not paying their employees for part of break where employees must stay in uniform, remain in close proximity to emergency response equipment, remain on call to respond to emergencies, and must stay on-campus unless given permission to leave

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Secretary United States Department of Labor v. American Future Systems, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2017-10-13· cited 40×
• Castaneda v. JBS USA, LLC
  Tenth Circuit· 2016-03-31· cited 19×
• Tymeco Jones v. SCO Silver Care Operations LLC
  Third Circuit· 2017-05-18· cited 14×
• Elliott Gelber v. AKAL Security, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-09-30· cited 11×
• Akpeneye v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2021-03-15· cited 9×
• Dean v. Akal Security
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-06-22· cited 5×
• Castaneda v. JBS S.A.
  Tenth Circuit· 2016-05-03
• Akpeneye v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2018-06-25
• Adegbite v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2021-10-29

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Phillips v. County of Allegheny
  Third Circuit· 2008-02-05· cited 8,116×
• Skidmore v. Swift & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1944-12-04· cited 4,567×
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. White Consolidated Industries, Inc., C/o Ct Corporation Systems Registered Agent
  Third Circuit· 1993-06-30· cited 3,171×
• Barrentine v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1981-04-06· cited 1,393×
• Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad v. Muscoda Local No. 123
  Supreme Court· 1944-05-29· cited 713×
• Armour & Co. v. Wantock
  Supreme Court· 1944-12-04· cited 706×
• Wright v. Universal Maritime Service Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1999-01-25· cited 487×
• Manning v. Boston Medical Center Corp.
  First Circuit· 2013-08-01· cited 236×
• Julie Alexander, Carmel G. Abbate, Bozeman Anderson v. City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-08-17· cited 198×
• Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk
  Supreme Court· 2014-12-09· cited 119×
• Simon v. FIA Card Services, N.A.
  Third Circuit· 2013-10-07· cited 102×
• Robert W. Kohlheim, Cross-Appellees v. Glynn County, Georgia, a Political Subdivision of the State of Georgia, Cross-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-12-11· cited 85×
• Kenneth J. Hill v. United States of America
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-01-22· cited 82×
• Avery v. City of Talladega
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-07-05· cited 82×
• Lamon v. City of Shawnee
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-08-10· cited 60×
• Lyle G. Armitage, Jr. v. City of Emporia, Kansas
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-01-25· cited 58×
• Bernard v. IBP, Inc. of Nebraska
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-09-21· cited 53×
• Jesse Busk v. Integrity Staffing Solutions
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-04-12· cited 37×
• Unnamed case
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-09-30· cited 33×