Soulie v. Soulie

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• acknowledging opt-in plaintiffs could “share common circumstances that may allow for an equitable tolling ruling that governs plaintiffs sharing those characteristics”
• limiting collective to superintendents at defendants’ buildings in upper Manhattan and the Bronx only
• granting conditional certification to superintendents working in all apartment buildings managed from the same office, based on plaintiffs’ conversations with employees from certain other buildings managed by that office that they likewise did not receive overtime pay
• “When there are ambiguities in the papers seeking collective action status, the court must draw all inferences in favor of the plaintiff at the preliminary certification stage.”
• “the test for equitable tolling is not concerned with the diligence of a plaintiff who has already timely filed a claim, but rather with the diligence of a plaintiff who is seeking the application of the doctrine”
• reaching merits of equitable tolling issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).