Rebecca F. Doherty

Sandoz v. CINGULAR WIRELESS, LLC

District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 2011-03-17 · cited 3×

This case is a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action brought by a former part-time retail sales consultant against Cingular Wireless, alleging that the company's policy of delaying payment for "exception time" hours beyond an employee's standard 19-hour schedule violated minimum wage requirements under 29 U.S.C. § 206 and related record-keeping rules. The plaintiff sought conditional class certification for similarly situated employees, claiming that unverified exception hours often resulted in paychecks covering only regular hours and thus sub-minimum wages for weeks with extra scheduled time. The court conducted an independent review of the record, statutory law, and objections to the magistrate judge's report and recommendation. It adopted the factual background, party arguments, and applicable law sections, declined to adopt the minimum wage violation analysis, and adopted the record-keeping violation conclusion on alternative grounds.

labor & employmentprocedure

Johnson v. Hospital Corp. of America

District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 2011-02-11 · cited 24×

The case involved a black female nurse who sued Dauterive Hospital and its parent company HCA for racial discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and defamation under Title VII, Louisiana employment discrimination law, and the state whistleblower statute, alleging events such as demotion from charge nurse, unequal raises, understaffing, hostile conduct by coworkers after an EEOC filing, denial of transfer, and constructive discharge. The court granted HCA's motion for summary judgment in full and dismissed all claims against it with prejudice, reasoning that HCA was not the plaintiff's employer. As to Dauterive, the court granted summary judgment in part by dismissing the Title VII claims as prescribed and certain state claims for lack of notice in the pleadings, while denying it in part and allowing remaining retaliation and defamation claims to proceed on the basis that the plaintiff had raised genuine issues of material fact regarding adverse employment actions and causation under the applicable standards.

labor & employmentcivil rights

Sepulvado v. ALPHA DRILLING, LLC

District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 2010-08-02 · cited 1×

Robertson v. W & T OFFSHORE, INC.

District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 2010-05-13 · cited 6×

Lemelle v. Stryker Orthopaedics

District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 2010-03-15 · cited 4×

Sims v. Sunnyside Land, LLC

District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 2010-03-04 · cited 5×

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