United States Eleventh Circuit

A group of paramedics, who are employed by a county fire department and trained in fire suppression, have the "responsibility to engage in fire suppression" under 29 U.S.C. section 203(y), and are accordingly partially exempt from the normal forty-hour overtime schedule established by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/15/2008
• Published 02/15/2008

Judges

• COX, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, ANDERSON and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• K. Prabhaker Reddy, The Reddy Law Firm, P.C., Karen Marie Patten, Law Offices of Karen M. Patten, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Howard Walter Indermark, Jones & Indermark, Duluth, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.