5th Circ. Sets Out 1-Step Vetting Rules For Collective Actions
By Katie Buehler ( January 12, 2021, 7:36 PM EST) -- The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday announced a new Fair Labor Standards Act certification framework that requires courts to "rigorously scrutinize" similarities among plaintiffs from the outset of a collective action, as it reversed a lower court's conditional certification of truck drivers seeking unpaid wages from a transportation company....
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