Legal Opinion
Specht v. City of Sioux Falls
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 11, 2011No. 10-1733PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Firefighter Michael Speeht of the City of Sioux Falls’s Fire Rescue Department (SFFR) and 15 other SFFR firefighters filed suit against the City of Sioux Falls (“the City”), seeking overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for work performed at the request of the State of South Dakota (“the State”) to help fight wildfires in western South Dakota and Nebraska. The district court 1 granted summary judgment to the City, finding that the special detail exemption of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 207(p)(l), applied because (1) the City firefighters volunteered…
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