United States Eleventh Circuit

In a claim for monetary relief under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, a manufacturer was not migrant workers' joint employer, but further consideration is necessary where the district court erred in refusing to address class action issues presented in the case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/05/2003
• Published 08/05/2003

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and NANGLE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James M. Knoepp,Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers, Falls Church, VA, Mary Catherine Bauer, Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers, Charlottesville, VA, Gregory S. Schell, Migrant FarmworkerJustice Project, Lake Worth, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Ilene V. O'Malley, Oregon Law Center, Portland, OR, D. Michael Dale, Cornelius, OR, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles Franklin Beall, Jr., Moore, Hill & Westmoreland, P.A., Thomas Larry Hill, Moore, Hill, Westmoreland, Hook & Bolton, Pensacola, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.