Victor Zavala v. Wal Mart Stores Inc

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• holding that the standard is whether the proposed collective plaintiffs are “similarly situated”
• concluding, under federal law, that “a single predicate act is not a pattern of predicate acts and therefore cannot support a RICO claim”
• explaining that at the “final certification” stage’s “similarly situated” analysis, plaintiffs “may also be found dissimilar based on the existence of individualized defenses.”
• reasoning that ‘similarly situated’ “means that one is subjected to some common employer practice that, if proved, would help demonstrate a violation of the FLSA”
• explaining that conditional certification of an FLSA collective action is “not really certification” but instead an exercise of the court's discretionary authority “to facilitate the sending of notice to potential class members.”
• explaining that conditional certification of an FLSA collective action is “not really a certification” but instead an exercise of the court's discretionary authority “to facilitate the sending of notice to potential class members.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).