Legal Opinion
Costello v. Beavex Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 31, 2014No. 12 C 7843PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Virginia M. Kendall, District Judge
Plaintiffs Thomas Costello, Megan Baase Kephart, Osama Daoud, and the class they seek to represent, worked for Defendant BeavEx, Inc., a courier company, as delivery drivers. The Plaintiffs brought the instant three-count Complaint on January 11, 2013 alleging that BeavEx unlawfully classified its delivery drivers as “independent contractors” when they should have been deemed “employees” under both Illinois statutory and common law. (Dkt. No. 34). This misclassi-fication allegedly resulted in (1) deprivation *298of overtime wages in…
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