Legal Opinion
Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor v. Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 9, 1993No. 92-4035PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Department of Labor asked the district court to enforce a subpoena directed against the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, seeking evidence that the Commission is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., which so far as relevant here requires employers to pay employees one and a half times their regular wages for work in excess of forty hours a week. The district judge refused to enforce the subpoena, on the ground that the Commission is not subject to the Act. The Department has appealed. Its first argument, which need not…
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