Legal Opinion
Leonard R. Woods v. New York Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 16, 1982No. 82-1827PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
We are asked in this case to decide whether in a so-called “spurious” class action under section 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), incorporated in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act by section 7(b) of that Act, 29 U.S.C. § 626(b), a district judge has the power to notify people who might want to join as plaintiffs that the action has been brought; and if so how he should exercise that power.
Leonard Woods was general manager of New York Life Insurance Company’s general office in Green Bay, Wisconsin, one of some 300 such offices throughout…
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