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District of Columbia· 7/22/2016

Serrano v. Chicken-Out Inc.

Citations

  • 209 F. Supp. 3d 179
  • 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95626
  • 2016 WL 3962800

How courts have described this case

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  • awarding treble damages under MWPCL and finding that “a lack of consequential damages” does not “militate[] in favor of merely doubled, rather than trebled, damages”
  • \The [ Mt. Clemens Pottery ] standard also applies to claims under the DCMWA ....\
  • “The [Mt. Clemens Pottery] standard also applies to claims under the DCMWA . . . .”
  • ‘[B]y virtue of their default, Defendants have forfeited any affirmative defense regarding willfulness under the FLSA.”
  • since employers failed to plead or otherwise respond to employee’s complaint, their default meant they could not meet their burden to prove a good faith affirmative defense
  • “Yet here the undersigned need not face the difficult question of the quantum and quality of evidence needed to justify LSI Laffey rates post- Salazar . . . because D.C. law itself mandates the Court use LSI Laffey rates.”

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Judges: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

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