Whitely v. Moravec

EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs worked for Waste Reduction, Inc., at its facilities in Indiana, until they were laid off in 2006. The next year Waste Reduction entered bankruptcy in Michigan. Plaintiffs filed claims for overdue wages and fringe benefits. Their wage claims were allowed and paid, but they remained dissatisfied. Indiana imposes penalties on employers that tarry in remitting wages, see Ind.Code §§ 22-2-5-2, 22-2-9-4(b), and Waste Reduction did not have enough assets to satisfy the penalty claims in the bankruptcy. So the ex-employees filed suit in a state court of Indiana,…