Morehead v. City of Pearl

BENCH OPINION

BARBOUR, Chief Judge.

The Court has considered the Defendant’s motion to exclude the Plaintiffs’ evidence and direct a verdict. The Court, after a great deal of consideration, has decided to grant that motion for the following reasons:

The history of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., as it pertains to Government employees, and specifically firefighters, is fairly well known. The Act was amended after Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528, 105 S.Ct. 1005, 83 L.Ed.2d 1016 (1985), to allow cities to fit their firefighters into an…