Saizan v. Delta Concrete Products Co.

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Plaintiffs appeal the District Court’s reduction in the requested amount of attorney’s fees, awarded pursuant to the settlement of an alleged Fair Labor Standards Act violation. Stephen Saizan, Russell Hooge, and Rodolfo Garcia, plaintiffs-appellants, asserted that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 1 covered the jobs they performed as batch men and that Delta Concrete Products Co. Inc., defendant-appellee, denied them compensation for overtime under the FLSA. The parties disputed the correct method of calculating the overtime compensation that Plaintiffs alleged they were owed. Delta…