Legal Opinion
Blakes v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 9, 2015No. 11 CV 336PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER
YOUNG B. KIM, United States Magistrate Judge
James Blakes, Steven Clark, Herman Deckys, Bradley Hunt, Phillipe Porter, Ernest Roberts, Jr., Larry Williams, and a class of opt-in plaintiffs (collectively, “the plaintiffs”) brought this action against Illinois Bell Telephone Company (“Illinois Bell”) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., claiming that Illinois Bell systematically fails to pay its cable splicers for all of their over*778time work. The parties have consented to this court’s jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 686(c); (R. 21). This…
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