Sendhabhai Patel v. Dr. Alex Wargo, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a sole owner is an employer if that person is either involved in day-to-day operations or has “some direct responsibility for the supervision of the employee”
• finding that allegations about a company’s owner who engaged in the day-to-day operations of the business and had direct supervisory responsibility over plaintiff were sufficient to state a cause of action under the FLSA against an individual and company
• “[T]he enterprise analysis is different from the analysis of who is liable under the FLSA. The finding of an enterprise is relevant only to the issue of coverage.”
• “[T]he enterprise analysis is different from the analysis of who is liable under the FLSA. . . . Liability is based on the existence of an employer-employee relationship.”
• “Whether [defendants] were employers within the meaning of the [FLSA] is a legal determination.”
• “[W]e hold that the enterprise analysis is different than the analysis of who is liable under the FLSA. The finding of an enterprise is relevant only to the issue of coverage. Liability is based on the existence of an employer-employee relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).