Legal Opinion
Morgan v. Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 16, 2008No. 07-12398PublishedCited by 409 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
The Court sua sponte issues this corrected opinion.
An opt-in class of 1,424 store managers, in a collective action certified by the district court, sued Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (“Family Dollar”) for unpaid overtime wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219. During an eight-day trial, the Plaintiffs used Family Dollar’s payroll records to establish that 1,424 store managers rou tinely worked 60 to 70 hours a week and to quantify the overtime wages owed to each Plaintiff. Family Dollar focused on its affirmative defense that the store…
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