Legal Opinion
James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Corning Glass Works, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 2, 1973No. 252, 349, Dockets 72-1229, 72-1230PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:
This appeal marks this Court’s first encounter with the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), one of the many beneficent remedial statutes enacted during the last decade which create new tasks for the federal courts. The burden is increased, perhaps needlessly, because, as is the case with other provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of which it forms a part, the Equal Pay Act has no provision for administrative fact-finding.
The controlling statute, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d)(1), of seeming simplicity, reads as follows:
No employer having employees subject to any…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Skidmore v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- National Labor Relations Board v. Express Publishing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Brookhaven General HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Shultz v. Wheaton Glass Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by75 opinions
- Corning Glass Works v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Carole Tomka v. The Seiler Corporation, Daniel Lucey, David Polonsky and Timothy ConroyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1995
- Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
- Lynn Foster v. Arcata Associates, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Thompson v. SawyerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982
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