Usery v. Brandel

OPINION

BENJAMIN F. GIBSON, District Judge.

The Secretary brings this action to test the propriety under the Fair Labor Standards Act [hereinafter “FLSA” or “the Act”] of a “sharecropper” arrangement between Brandel and certain migrant agricultural workers. Consideration of the interesting questions presented by this cause must, however, abide the resolution of a motion to intervene brought by several of the so-called “sharecroppers,” and yet another skirmish in a long-running discovery battle between the present parties.

Defendant Brandel operates several farms in Oceana County, Michigan. As…