Maino v. Urban Meat Co.

Through the medium of this lawsuit, plaintiffs are endeavoring to invoke the enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (U. S. Code, tit. 29, § 201 et seq.), relating to minimum wage for employees engaged in interstate commerce.

Originally posed for judicial determination, was this broad query: As defendant’s employees, did plaintiffs’ type of work encompass them within the protective measures of the act, so as to entitle them to protection thereunder?

However, this original field of inquiry has now been narrowed in plaintiffs’ memorandum of law after trial, to a single…