Urbino v. Puerto Rico Ry. Light & Power Co.

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants, one hundred and thirty-four in number, have taken this appeal from a judgment dismissing their complaint in an action brought on June 29, 1945, for liquidated damages under § 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 52 Stat. 1069, 29 U.S.C.A. § 216(b), on the ground that a certain consent decree entered on December 28, 1942, in a previous suit brought by the plaintiffs and others against the defendant-appellee on the same cause of action, “is binding and conclusive upon the parties and therefore is an absolute bar to the present cause…