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Andrea Hirst, et al. v. SkyWest, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 17-3643, 17-3660 · judgment December 12, 2018


Certiorari denied · June 24, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Must an employee protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act always allege wage violations averaged across a specific seven-day workweek, or may an employee plead a cause of action with alternative context-specific allegations to meet the plausibility requirements of Rule 8 and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Gregory F. Coleman
Greg Coleman Law P.C.

For respondent
Shay Dvoretzky
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Related
Vide, 18-1097

Linked docket
18A1007

Proceedings

  1. Jun 24 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 04 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/20/2019.
  3. Jun 03 2019
    Reply of petitioners Andrea Hirst, et al. filed. (Distributed)
  4. May 21 2019
    Brief of respondents Skywest, Inc., et al. in opposition filed.
  5. May 10 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 12, 2019)
  6. Apr 04 2019
    Application (18A1007) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until May 11, 2019.
  7. Apr 01 2019
    Application (18A1007) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 11, 2019 to May 11, 2019, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.