Legal Opinion
Acevedo v. Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 16, 2010No. 09-10417PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Per curiam
In 2007, Appellants Christina Acevedo and approximately 800 current or former employees of Allsup’s Convenience Stories, Inc. (“Allsup’s”) opted into a representative action against their employer, seeking payment of unpaid wages and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-19 (2006). After the district court decertified the representative action and dismissed Appellants’ claims, they filed the present action, seeking joinder of all dismissed plaintiffs in a single lawsuit advancing the same claims against Allsup’s. The district court again dismissed their…
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