Legal Opinion
Bergemann v. Rhode Island
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided December 16, 2009No. C.A. 09-150MLPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MARY M. LISI, Chief Judge.
This case represents the second effort by a group of Rhode Island Environmental Police Officers (“EPOs”) to challenge certain wage practices by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (“RIDEM”) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 to 219. Plaintiff Scott Bergemann and approximately 20 of the original plaintiffs from the first litigation in 1997, see Bergemann v. Rhode Island, 958 F.Supp. 61 (D.R.I.1997), are joined by a new group of EPO plaintiffs in this suit. As before, the plaintiffs assert violations of…
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