Troester v. Starbucks Corporation

**1116 *834 Upon a request by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ( Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.548 ), we agreed to answer the following question: Does the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's de minimis doctrine, as stated in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. (1946) 328 U.S. 680 , 692, 66 S.Ct. 1187 , 90 L.Ed. 1515 , and *835 Lindow v. United States (9th Cir. 1984) 738 F.2d 1057 , 1063, apply to claims for unpaid wages under California Labor Code sections 510, 1194, and 1197 ?

The de minimis doctrine is an application of the maxim de minimis non curat lex , which means "[t]he law…