Whistenant v. Alabama

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that liquidated damages “are compensatory rather than punitive in nature”
• finding defendant exercised pervasive control over gas station operators where “station operators were required to make daily sales reports to [defendant]”
• finding a willful FLSA violation by a gas station operator who suspected that paying operators a percentage of gas sold instead of the minimum wage may be illegal but did it anyway
• affirming district court’s finding of willfulness and award of liquidated damages
• in the absence of adequate employer records, the Third Circuit allows the employee or the Secretary to submit sufficient evidence from which violations of the Act and the amount of an award may be reasonably inferred
• \The employment status of the station operators is a legal conclusion.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).