September 30, 2024
The full Fifth Circuit declined Monday to rethink its decision that a crude oil hauler isn't owed overtime because she plays a role in an interstate trip and thus falls under a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption, despite a dissent saying the court drifted too far from the law.
August 14, 2024
A crude oil hauler said a Fifth Circuit panel overlooked the Motor Carrier Act's text and instead relied on a "morass of confusing tests" when it ruled she was overtime-exempt, urging the full appeals court to step in.
August 01, 2024
The crude oil that a worker transported travels outside of Texas and thus is part of an interstate trip, the Fifth Circuit ruled, flipping a district court's decision that the Motor Carrier Act exemption didn't apply to a transporter who sought unpaid overtime.