In Re Cintas Corp. Overtime Pay Arbitration Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

WM. TERRELL HODGES, Chairman.

This litigation consists of the 71 actions, each pending in a different federal district, that are listed on the attached Schedule A. The Northern District of California hosts the first filed of this docket’s constituent actions (Veliz), which is a March 2003 action brought, inter alia, under state law and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) against Cintas Corp (Cintas). Veliz, a “collective” action in which over 2,000 plaintiffs have now joined, is brought by Cintas employees or former employees who allege that Cintas failed to pay them required…