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11th Cir.: Rehearing En Banc Denied On Refusal To Award Prevailing FLSA...
Sahyers v. Prugh, Holliday & Karatinos, P.L. In a decision discussed here previously, the 11th Circuit had affirmed the trial court’s decision to award no attorneys fees or costs, in a case where...
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E.D.Tex.: Notwithstanding Settlement Agreement Stating Plaintiffs Were Not...
Champion v. ADT Sec. Services, Inc. The case was before the court on Plaintiffs’ motions for attorneys fees and costs, following the settlement of their FLSA claims. The Defendant argued that...
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2d. Cir.: Contested Attorney’s Fee Petition Must Be Accompanied By...
Scott v. City of New York After prevailing at trial, the Plaintiff in this Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) case, moved for an award of attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to 216(b). The Defendant...
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D.Ariz.: Employee Who Resolved His Claims For Unpaid Overtime Prior To...
McBurnie v. City of Prescott Before the court was plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding entitlement to attorneys fees following his presuit acceptance of a check that purported to resolve...
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S.D.Ind.: FLSA Defendant Not Entitled to Discovery of Plaintiff’s Attorney’s...
Johnson v. Bridges of Indiana, Inc. This case was before the court on the defendant’s motion to compel discovery of plaintiff’s attorney’s billing records. In denying the motion, the court noted that...
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2d. Cir.: Award of Attorney’s Fees for All Time Worked Cannot Be Based Solely...
Scott v. City of New York This case was before the Second Circuit for the second time on the issue of attorney’s fees. The plaintiffs prevailed in the underling case, but the plaintiffs’ attorney...
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11th Cir.: Following Tender of Unpaid Wages and Liquidated Damages, an...
Dionne v. Floormasters Enterprises, Inc. Following a controversial opinion that created more questions than it answered, the Eleventh Circuit reconsidered it’s prior Opinion in this case and in so...
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S.D.Fla.: Defendants Did Not Moot FLSA Case By Tender of Unpaid Wages and...
Diaz v. Jaguar Restaurant Group, LLC In the first post-Dionne II case, a court in the Southern District has denied an FLSA defendants’ motion to dismiss based on tender of unpaid wages and liquidated...
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W.D.N.Y.: Defendant’s Attorneys’ Billing Records Relevant and Discoverable...
Mendez v. Radec Corp. Following an order granting the parties’ joint motion for approval of settlement agreement, the plaintiff moved for award of attorneys’ fees and renewed his motion to reopen...
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11th Cir.: Absent Judgment in Plaintiff’s Favor, Offer Did Not Moot FLSA...
Wolff v Royal American Management, Inc. Following an order approving the settlement between the parties and an award of attorneys’ fees and costs to the plaintiff, as the prevailing party, the...
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E.D.Cal.: Attorney’s Fees and Costs Recoverable Under 216(b) When Plaintiff...
Pickett v. Beard This case was before the court on the relatively novel issue of whether an FLSA plaintiff, who prevails in a case solely seeking a declaratory judgment or declaratory relief is...
View Article11th Cir.: Arbitration Clause Requiring Fee/Cost Splitting Violates the FLSA
Hudson v. P.I.P., Inc. This case was before the Eleventh Circuit on the defendant-employer’s appeal of the district court’s denial of its motion to compel arbitration. Specifically, the district court...
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