Legal Opinion
Bartels v. Piel Bros.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided September 8, 1947No. Civil Action No. 7540PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, District Judge.
In this and 15 other cases, plaintiffs move to amend their complaint. All of the suits were instituted under the supposed authority of Sec. 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C.A. § 216(b), that is to say the plaintiffs were not suing in the capacity of employees of the defendant; they were union agents suing in a representative capacity. These agent-plaintiffs had, .and exhibited as part of their complaints, 'authority in writing from the individual employees to maintain suits in the form described. But on May 14, 1947, the Congress, by the…
2Cited by6 opinions
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- Brown v. Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
- Gibbons v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1949
- Williams v. Speedster, Inc.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1971
- Johnson v. North Carolina Department of TransportationCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1992
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