Secretary of Labor v. Crown Central Petroleum Corp.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

In this action under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-218, the plaintiff Secretary of Labor has alleged that defendant Crown Central Petroleum Corporation is an “enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce,” and an “employer” of “employees” as those terms are defined in 29 U.S.C. § 203(b), (d), (i), (j), (r) and (s). Defendant allegedly operates more than twenty retail gasoline service stations in New York’s Nassau and Suffolk counties and in New Jersey, and maintains a district office on Long Island.…