Legal Opinion
Mueller v. Reich
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 15, 1995No. Nos. 94-3262, 94-3263PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is a class action on behalf of certain engineers employed by the State of Wisconsin, seeking overtime pay to which the plaintiffs claim to be entitled by the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq. The Act exempts bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees, § 213(a)(1); and the state claims, and the district court agreed, that the engineers fall within the exemption. Mueller v. Thompson, 858 F.Supp. 885 (W.D.Wis.1994). The class is defined as all state-employed engineers who have been classified as exempt.
The Act does not define the…
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