United States Supreme Court Declines to Resolve Circuit Court Split Impacting Opt-In Plaintiffs in FLSA Collective Actions
By Erica M. Clifford, Esq. The recently established Third Circuit precedent barring out-of-state plaintiffs from joining a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act remains intact after the United States Supreme Court denied the plaintiff’s petition for certiorari in Fischer v. Federal Express. Last year, in Fischer, the Third Circuit limited the plaintiff’s FLSA […]