Legal Opinion
John Barks v. Silver Bait LLC
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 2, 2015No. 15-5175PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge.
John Barks and Brenda Hoffman appeal the district court’s declaratory judgment, entered after a bench trial, holding that the term “agriculture” in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) includes the activities of their former employer, Silver Bait LLC (Silver Bait), in growing and raising worms for sale as fishing bait. We AFFIRM.
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Bruno Durant, president of Silver Bait, moved to the United States from his native France in 1992 to grow worms. R. 67, Trial Tr., PID 1238; R. 82, Order, PID 1672. After raising worms on a farm in Georgia for nearly a decade,…
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