Turkey Foot Lumber Co. v. Wilson

How courts have described this case

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• stating that satisfaction of the Carter test showed that the individual defendant was the FLSA plaintiffs joint employer along with the corporate defendant
• finding defendants’ FLSA violation willful where plaintiffs “repeatedly notified the individual defendant that they were not receiving appropriate minimum wages or overtime pay, and never received any response to such complaints”
• finding a violation willful where, inter alia, “plaintiffs allege that they repeatedly notified the individual defendant that they were not receiving . . . overtime pay, and never received any response to such complaints”
• “[S]ince the allegations in the complaint must be ‘well-pleaded,’ we are required to examine whether those factual allegations, if deemed true, establish liability.”
• “[P]laintiffs may recover the minimum wage at the rate set by state or federal law, whichever is greater.” (citation omitted)
• “When the parties make no objections to the Report, the Court may adopt the Report if there is no clear error on the face of the record.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).