October 03, 2022
A Fifth Circuit ruling that found crew members aboard lift boats that service oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico don’t qualify for an exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirement highlights the appeals court’s textualist approach. Here, Law360 details three cases that outline the ruling's ongoing impact.
August 31, 2022
The full Fifth Circuit won't reconsider a panel's decision reviving a group of stewards' overtime lawsuit against an energy company, while also denying the workers' bid to assign the suit to a different judge when it goes back to the district court.
August 18, 2022
An energy company urged the Fifth Circuit not to reassign to a different judge an overtime lawsuit filed by stewards that a panel had remanded to a district court, saying its rehearing petition is still pending and there isn't an extraordinary reason to change judges.
August 11, 2022
An energy company asked the full Fifth Circuit to reexamine a panel's decision that revived a group of stewards' lawsuit claiming overtime violations, saying the decision the panel relied on goes against the U.S. Supreme Court's directions to interpret federal exemptions fairly.
July 28, 2022
The Fifth Circuit revived a group of workers' lawsuit claiming they were entitled to overtime because they didn't fall under the Fair Labor Standards Act's seaman exemption, saying an earlier decision the court handed down examined the same carveout.