Nevada Highway Patrol Ass'n v. State, Department of Motor Vehicles & Public Safety

*548OPINION

Appellants brought an action in the state district court asserting respondent’s compensation policy — which provides highway patrol officers compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay— violates the Fair Labor Standards Act. See 29 U.S.C. §§ 201, 216(b). The matter was removed to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada where summary judgment was granted in respondents’ favor.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision on March 28, 1990, reversing the grant of summary judgment and remanding the case back to the district court with…