Christofferson v. United States

OPINION

BRUGGINK, Judge.

This is a pay case brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219 (2000), and the Federal Employee Pay Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 5541-5550a (2000), by thousands of former employees of the United States Bureau of the Census (“Bureau”) for unpaid overtime hours worked during the 2000 Decennial Census. Pending now is plaintiffs’ motion for a protective order. Plaintiffs seek protection, primarily based on an asserted attorney-client privilege, from discovery of questionnaires mailed to individual plaintiffs, completed, and returned to plaintiffs’ counsel.…