Mark Acton and 579 Other Named v. The United States

RADER, Circuit Judge.

Present and former border patrol agents appeal from the United States Claims Court’s final judgment which grew out of its grant of the Government’s motion for partial summary judgment. Acton v. United States, 21 Cl.Ct. 214 (1990). The held the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-19 (1988) (FLSA), two-year statute of limitations applied to the agents’ back pay claims. This court reverses and remands.

BACKGROUND

The plaintiffs-appellants are 580 present and former border patrol agents employed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The agents’ duties…