January 24, 2023
Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings reining in federal agencies that overstep their mandate from Congress are likely to be the anchor of legal challenges to recent Wage and Hour Division rules, former agency officials told Law360.
May 01, 2018
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday paused a contempt order entered against a plaintiff and her attorneys from firms including Cohen Milstein for filing an overtime lawsuit against Chipotle in New Jersey based on a rule he had blocked, holding the chain would not be harmed while plaintiffs fight the order at the Fifth Circuit.
March 23, 2018
A Texas federal judge on Friday stayed a contempt order against attorneys and their client for filing an overtime pay suit against Chipotle in New Jersey based on a rule the jurist had blocked, pausing the ruling until after he decides whether to stay the order while they appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
March 21, 2018
Attorneys who were held in contempt for filing an overtime pay suit against Chipotle based on a rule a Texas federal judge had blocked asked the judge Tuesday to stay the contempt order while they appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
March 19, 2018
A Texas federal judge on Monday held in contempt lawyers from Outten & Golden LLP and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and their client, saying they had improperly pursued a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action against Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. based on an invalidated overtime rule.
December 19, 2017
A Texas federal court’s invalidation of the Obama administration’s controversial expansion of overtime pay for white collar workers and divergent rulings by two federal circuit courts over whether federal anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation bias were among the highlights of 2017 for employment law observers. Here, Law360 looks back at five of the year’s seminal court cases.
November 06, 2017
A Texas federal judge on Monday sternly rebuked lawyers from Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and Outten & Golden LLP for taking the position in a New Jersey collective action against Chipotle that they could sue on behalf of an employee to enforce a U.S. Department of Labor overtime rule the judge had blocked.
October 30, 2017
The U.S. Department of Labor will ask the Fifth Circuit to undo a Texas federal judge's August order blocking a 2016 rule that more than doubled the salary level under which workers must be paid for overtime, according to an appeal notice filed Monday.
September 18, 2017
A Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. worker who filed a putative class action in New Jersey seeking overtime pay under an enjoined U.S. Department of Labor overtime rule change urged a Texas federal judge on Monday not to hold her and her counsel in contempt over the suit.
August 31, 2017
A Texas federal judge on Thursday invalidated the Obama administration's controversial rule expanding overtime protections to millions of white collar workers, saying the U.S. Department of Labor used a salary-level test that was too high to determine which workers are exempt from overtime compensation.