Ferrara v. Louisiana

CASSIBRY, District Judge:

The plaintiffs, all Louisiana State Troopers, have moved to restore this case to the trial docket and to grant summary judgment in their favor on their claims for back wages allegedly due and owed to them. The defendants, various state officials and agencies, oppose these motions -and move for summary judgment or, in the alternative, to dismiss the plaintiffs' suit for want of prosecution.

The plaintiffs in this case have presented an apparently simple suit for back pay allegedly due and owing to them for overtime hours worked over a four-year period.1 The prosecution…