Legal Opinion
Velez v. Sanchez
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 31, 2012No. Docket 11-90-cvPublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DRONEY, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment against the plaintiff and its prior grant of a motion to dismiss one count of the amended complaint. Plaintiff-Appellant Linda Velez (‘Velez”) brought this action against Betsy Sanchez (“Sanchez”), Sanchez’s sister Shari Munoz, and Sanchez’s and Shari’s mother Yolanda Munoz under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-19, and New York state law.
For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.
BACKGROUND
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