Legal Opinion
Marvin E. Birdwell, Gary C. Alexander, Martha L. Harbin Mark Henderson and Jeffrey W. Wagnon v. City of Gadsden, Alabama, a Municipal Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 2, 1992No. 91-7754PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, Senior Circuit Judge:
The City of Gadsden appeals from a jury verdict in favor of its police officers. The police officers had brought two claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). First, the officers alleged that they had been required to work 15 minutes per day for which they were not compensated. Second, a group of detectives argued that they should be paid for a one week period in which they were on-call.
The police officers were being paid for eight hours a day. However, the jury found that the officers were actually working eight hours and fifteen minutes per day. The…
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