United States Eleventh Circuit

In a Fair Labor Standards Act case, part of the judgments awarding damages in favor of twenty-six store manager plaintiffs are reversed where the district court erroneously instructed the jury that it should use the total number of hours the store managers worked in order to calculate their regular rate of pay.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2008
• Published 03/06/2008

Judges

• Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and CARNES and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Susan Nadler Eisenberg, Jennifer M. Taylor, Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., Miami, FL, Susan Potter Norton, Rodolfo Gomez, Allen, Norton & Blue, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, Joseph W. Hatchett, Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Farm Stores Grocery, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Neil Rose, Bernstein, Chackman & Liss, Hollywood, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.