Seventh Circuit· 1/19/2016

Thomas Costello v. BeavEx, Incorporated

Citations

810 F.3d 1045
93 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 949
25 Wage & Hour Cas. (BNA) 1681
25 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 1681
2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 862
2016 WL 212797

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holding that class certification was appropriate where one element of a conjunctive test was susceptible to common proof
finding prongs A and B of Illinois ABC test could be satisfied through common evidence
proceeding directly to the ABC analysis where the defendant delivery service used drivers who were incorporated
holding Illinois wage law not preempted
“Because the test is conjunctive, if BeavEx cannot satisfy just one prong of the test, its couriers must be treated as employees.”
district court erred by concluding that common issues cannot predominate unless as to all three prongs of the ABC test

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Judges: Bauer, Kanne, Rovner

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