Legal Opinion
Aaron Espenscheid v. DirectSat USA, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 6, 2012No. 12-1943PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The three appellants are the named plaintiffs in a class action suit to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act and parallel state laws. Actually only the supplemental state law claims were brought as class action suits, the suit under the FLSA being brought as a “collective action” under section 16(b) of that Act, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b). The difference (of no consequence to this appeal, as we’ll see) between the two types of action is that in a collective action class members must opt into the suit in order to be bound by the judgment in it, while in a class action governed by…
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