United States First Circuit

The applicability of the "seaman" exemption to the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act is a fact-dependent issue that is best decided after a full factual record has been compiled.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2005
• Published 08/17/2005

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vincent P. Dunn, with whom Elizabeth B. Crouch and Dunn and Dunn were on brief, for appellant., Carol B. Feinberg, Attorney, Office of the Solicitor, with whom Howard M. Radzely, Solicitor, Steven J. Mandel, Associate Solicitor, and Paul L. Frieden, Counsel for Appellate Litigation, were on brief, for U.S. Department of Labor, amicus curiae., Stephen E. Bers, with whom Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP was on brief, for National Association of Passenger Vessel Owners, Inc., amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard D. Wayne, with whom Brian E. Lewis and Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP were on brief, for appellees.