United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Fair Labor and Standards Act, finance and insurance managers of retail automobile dealerships are not entitled to overtime pay for hours worked beyond the standard 40-hour work week .

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2004
• Decided 05/18/2005
• Published 05/18/2005

Judges

• POLLAK, District Judge., Before TROTT and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ford F. Newman, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae the Secretary of Labor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy R. Volpert, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Portland, OR, for defendants-appellants DDR, Inc., et al. and SLT/ TAG, Inc., etc., Jacqueline L. Koch, Koch & Deering, Portland, OR, for plaintiff-appellee Jerry Gieg., Felicia R. Reid, Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfeld Kraemer & Sloan, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae the National Automobile Dealers Association;  National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation;  National Independent Automobile Dealers Association;  Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association;  and Marine Retailers Association of America in support of the defendants-appellants., John R. Scannell, Action Employment Law, Seattle, WA, for plaintiff-appellee Joseph C. Wickersham., Patrick M. Madden, Seattle, WA, for defendant-appellant Haselwood Buick-Pontiac Company., Robert J. Bekken, Fisher & Phillips, LLP, Irvine, CA, Joel W. Rice, Fisher & Phillips LLP, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant Haselwood Buick-Pontiac Company., David F. Sugerman, Paul & Sugerman, PC, Portland, OR, for plaintiffs-appellees Martin Chaloupka, et al., Christopher P. Koback, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Portland, OR, for defendants-appellants DDR, Inc., et al. and SLT/TAG, Inc., etc.