Walling v. W. D. Haden Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that employees in the clamshell dredging industry were not exempt because their “dominant employment [was] clearly the industrial one, the production of shells,” and “[t]he maritime work [was] incidental and occasional”
• “The entire Act is pervaded by the idea that what each employee actually does determines its application to him.”
• words of FLSA seaman exemption “warn us to look to what the employees do, and not to rest on a mere matter of a name, or the place of their work”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).