Legal Opinion
Hipp v. Liberty National Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 2001No. 99-10699PublishedCited by 452 opinions
1Per curiam
This age discrimination appeal requires us to decide several issues concerning application of the “single-filing,” or “piggybacking,” rule 1 to opt-in collective actions under 29 U.S.C. § 216(b). We address these important issues in Part I of this opinion, and we provide a brief summary of our holdings here. We first clarify the meaning of the “similarly situated” requirement under § 216(b). We conclude the similarly situated requirement is not particularly stringent, and we suggest an approach district courts can use to better manage these cases. We next consider the proper temporal scope of…
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