Legal Opinion
R. Alexander Acosta v. Cathedral Buffet
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 16, 2018No. 17-3427PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SILER, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which KETHLEDGE and THAPAR, JJ., joined. KETHLEDGE, J. (pp. 768-70), delivered a separate concurring opinion.
*763The Grace Cathedral church operates a restaurant on its Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, campus called Cathedral Buffet. For many years, Cathedral Buffet was open to the public and was partially staffed by unpaid church members. Following a Department of Labor (DOL) suit and a bench trial, the district court found that the restaurant's use of unpaid labor violated the minimum wage requirement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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