Bringing some degree of clarity to the murky question of whether parties can dismiss a pending FLSA lawsuit on their own volition, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that any dismissal with prejudice requires “the approval of the district court or the DOL to take effect.” Cheeks v. Freeport Pancake House
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Federal Court in Arizona Also Questions Need for Supervision of FLSA Settlement
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Litigation
As we recently discussed, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit called into question the FLSA’s long-standing judicial supervision requirement, creating a split of authority between its decision rejecting the supervision requirement where other indicia of fairness are present, and the Eleventh Circuit’s 1982 decision relied on by courts which requires supervision (…