Wage and Hour, Fourteenth Amendment, Employment Litigation

Where It’s Filed Really Matters: Jurisdictional Limits in Wage and Hour Litigation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/14/2025

The Ninth Circuit’s decision in Harrington v. Cracker Barrel underscores the growing importance of personal jurisdiction in limiting the scope of FLSA collective actions. The court held that employees with no connection to...more

Seventh Circuit Joins Third, Sixth, and Eighth Circuits in Limiting Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction in FLSA Collective Actions

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/3/2024

On August 16, 2024, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on whether out-of-state plaintiffs must satisfy personal jurisdiction requirements to participate in a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more

Personal Jurisdiction of Opt-In Plaintiffs Under the FLSA: Will the Supreme Court Resolve the Circuit Split this Summer?

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 3/6/2023

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark opinion in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017), a question arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions is...more

Federal Appeals Courts Add to Employers’ Confusion by Disagreeing on Whether to Dismiss Out-of-State Plaintiffs in FLSA Collective...

Fisher Phillips on 2/10/2022

Over the past several years, many federal courts have weighed in on whether a key Supreme Court decision requires them to dismiss non-resident opt-in plaintiffs in federal wage and hour collective actions, and there is now...more

Wage and Hour › Fourteenth Amendment › Employment Litigation

Where It’s Filed Really Matters: Jurisdictional Limits in Wage and Hour Litigation

Seventh Circuit Joins Third, Sixth, and Eighth Circuits in Limiting Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction in FLSA Collective Actions

Personal Jurisdiction of Opt-In Plaintiffs Under the FLSA: Will the Supreme Court Resolve the Circuit Split this Summer?

Federal Appeals Courts Add to Employers’ Confusion by Disagreeing on Whether to Dismiss Out-of-State Plaintiffs in FLSA Collective...

Sixth Circuit Limits Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction in FLSA Collective Actions

California Employment Law Notes - July 2021

Employment Law Legends, Episode 1 – Employment Law Reborn: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish

Wage and Hour › Fourteenth Amendment › Employment Litigation

Where It’s Filed Really Matters: Jurisdictional Limits in Wage and Hour Litigation

Seventh Circuit Joins Third, Sixth, and Eighth Circuits in Limiting Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction in FLSA Collective Actions

Personal Jurisdiction of Opt-In Plaintiffs Under the FLSA: Will the Supreme Court Resolve the Circuit Split this Summer?

Federal Appeals Courts Add to Employers’ Confusion by Disagreeing on Whether to Dismiss Out-of-State Plaintiffs in FLSA Collective...

Sixth Circuit Limits Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction in FLSA Collective Actions

California Employment Law Notes - July 2021

Employment Law Legends, Episode 1 – Employment Law Reborn: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish

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