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The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19667 (7th Cir. 2025) significantly changes how federal courts within the circuit will handle collective actions under the Fair Labor...more
In a recent decision, the Seventh Circuit favorably revised the standard for defendant employers faced with a putative collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act...more
This blog often focuses on traditional, opt-out class actions brought under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, but there is another common form of mass action: collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has provided a new framework for district courts to apply when deciding whether to issue notice to potential plaintiffs of a pending collective action under the Fair Labor...more
The Seventh Circuit’s decision in Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co. represents the most significant shift in collective action procedure in the circuit in decades. For many years, district courts in the circuit have utilized the...more
With a nod to discretion and practicality, the Seventh Circuit has become the latest U.S. Court of Appeals to depart from the traditional two-step collective certification process in cases brought under the Fair Labor...more
In Richards v. Eli Lily & Co., a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit joined the Fifth and Sixth Circuits in departing from the longstanding two-step procedure for distributing notice to potential...more
Another federal appellate court has rejected the Lusardi approach to managing collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. In Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., the U.S....more
On August 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its decision in Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., No. 24-2574, fundamentally reshaping how district courts in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin evaluate...more
Just this week, in Richards v. Eli Lily & Co., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals became the third circuit to depart from the long-standing Lusardi standard for distributing notice to potential plaintiffs in collective...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a welcome turn of events, the Seventh Circuit has taken up the question of what is the appropriate standard for court-authorized notice in collective actions....more
On August 29, 2024, a Seventh Circuit panel granted a midsuit request from Eli Lilly & Company to review a district court order granting collective certification to a sales representative in her age discrimination lawsuit....more
The Situation: A district court in the Fifth Circuit granted conditional certification under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") to a class of allegedly misclassified truck drivers, analyzing certification using the widely...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 11, 2019, in an age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee once again demonstrated how the lenient standard that is so often applied at the conditional...more
Connecting the dots will likely be a problem down the road . . . The overwhelming majority of employment class or collective actions today are wage and hour matters....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: At 852 pages, Seyfarth’s 15th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 1,453 rulings and is our most comprehensive Report ever. ...more
In the third post of our series on workplace class action issues, this blog posting focuses on the statistical study of class certification rulings throughout the Unites States in 2016. Not unlike real estate, location – in...more
In an article published on Nov. 27, 2015 in Bloomberg BNA’s Class Action Litigation Report, E. Travis Ramey discusses collective action, which is the representative mass litigation procedure available to parties litigating...more
This month we look at part two of our three part series on Class Actions. In part two, Robert Rachal, Page Griffin and Madeline Chimento Rea address Wal-Mart's Rule 23(b) principles, including some defenses to plaintiffs' use...more