United States Tenth Circuit

A judgment in favor of a natural gas and oil well drilling company in a suit brought by former employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claiming that they should be paid for time spent traveling from the company's location to drill sites is affirmed where: 1) the district court acted within its discretion by limiting plaintiffs to travel-time claims; and 2) correctly found that, as a matter of law, the Portal-to-Portal Act removed any obligation defendant might otherwise have under the FLSA to compensate the plaintiffs for their travel time.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2006
• Published 09/13/2006

Judges

• McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• E. Justin Pennington, Law Offices of E. Justin Pennington, Albuquerque, NM, (Lisa K. Vigil, Vigil Law Firm, Albuquerque, NM, and Shannon L. Donahue, Shannon L. Donahue, P.C., with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees., Robin A. Goble (Alice Tomlinson Lorenz with her on the briefs), of Miller Stratvert P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.