Teed v. Thomas & Betts Power Solutions, L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that state common law applies to the question of successor liability if the wage-and-hour claim is based on state law
• discussing potential “possible reasons” that may be briefed so as to avoid successor liability
• “The predecessor’s inability to provide relief favors successor liability, as without it the plaintiffs’ claim is worthless.”
• “[F]or when a company is broken up and its assets sold piecemeal, there is no successor to transfer the company’s liability to.”
• “We suggest that successor liability is appropriate in suits to enforce federal labor or employment laws.”
• “Whether there is continuity between the operations and work force of the predecessor and the successor, as there is in this case, which favors successor liability on the theory that nothing really has changed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).