Stephens v. Farmers Rest. Grp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that conditional certification “would be unfair to Defendants, who have had no opportunity to test the sufficiency of these new allegations at the pleading stage’
• stating that \defendants cannot defeat conditional certification by pointing to immaterial variations in how the improper policies alleged by the plaintiff were applied\
• observing that courts are not required to address arguments \raised only cursorily in a footnote\ (internal citation and quotation marks omitted)
• observing that \pure speculation\ is not sufficient to establish a common policy or practice
• applying the three-year period in the conditional certification stage as Defendants failed to argue Plaintiff’s allegations were “implausible.”
• limiting class to employees who worked at restaurants in D.C. and Maryland when the plaintiffs failed to present evidence of a similar policy at Virginia locations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Meyer v. Panera Bread Co.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-10-16· cited 19×
• Camara v. Mastro's Rests. LLC
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-10-24· cited 8×
• Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-07-17· cited 6×
• Meyer v. Panera Bread Company
  District of Columbia· 2018-10-16
• Camara v. Mastros Restaurants LLC
  District of Columbia· 2018-10-24
• Bradley v. Vox Media, Inc..
  District of Columbia· 2019-03-06
• Stephens v. Farmers Restaurant Group
  District of Columbia· 2019-06-20
• Parker v. McCormick & Schmick's Seafood
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2019-08-29
• Hu v. K4 Solutions, Inc
  District of Columbia· 2020-03-12
• Guevara v. Spartan Enterprises, LLC
  District of Columbia· 2020-11-23
• Guzman v. Gf, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2021-06-14
• Harrington v. Fb Hospitality, LLC
  District of Columbia· 2024-09-26
• Casey v. Parts Authority, LLC
  District of Columbia· 2025-05-14

Cites

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

• Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. v. Sperling
  Supreme Court· 1990-01-09· cited 1,715×
• Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk
  Supreme Court· 2013-04-16· cited 1,227×
• Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez
  Supreme Court· 2016-01-20· cited 967×
• Myers v. Hertz Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2010-10-27· cited 803×
• Lundy v. Catholic Health System of Long Island Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-03-01· cited 650×
• Grayson v. K Mart Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-04-09· cited 329×
• Joanie Dybach v. State of Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-09-30· cited 293×
• Symczyk v. Genesis HealthCare Corp.
  Third Circuit· 2011-08-31· cited 159×
• Jose Gomez v. Campbell-Ewald Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-09-19· cited 102×
• United States v. Samuel H. South
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-06-29· cited 88×
• United States v. Hughes
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-01-25· cited 77×
• Purdham v. Fairfax County Public Schools
  E.D. Virginia· 2009-06-22· cited 59×
• Cohen v. Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2010-01-07· cited 57×
• Parker v. Rowland Express, Inc.
  D. Minnesota· 2007-06-25· cited 57×
• Flores v. Anjost Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2012-06-19· cited 53×
• Ventura v. Bebo Foods, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2010-12-03· cited 45×
• Sheffield v. Orius Corp.
  D. Oregon· 2002-11-08· cited 45×
• Delaney v. Geisha NYC, LLC
  S.D. New York· 2009-09-22· cited 44×
• Ayres v. 127 Restaurant Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1998-06-16· cited 43×
• Hunter v. Sprint Corp.
  District of Columbia· 2004-11-16· cited 43×