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123753P.pdf 05/20/2016 Peg Bouaphakeo v. Tyson Foods, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3753
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Smith and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case. On remand from the Supreme Court of the United States - Tyson
Foods v. Bouaphakeo, 136 S. Ct. 1036 (2016). For the Court's prior opinion
in the matter see Bouaphakeo v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 765 F.3d 791 (8th Cir.
2014). Remanded to the district court for further proceedings.
123753P.pdf 08/25/2014 Peg Bouaphakeo v. Tyson Foods, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3753
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Beam and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Fair Labor Standards Act. In action alleging Tyson violated
the Fair Labor Standards Act by giving the employees insufficient paid
time to cover compensable pre-and post-production line activities
("donning and doffing"), the district court did not err in certifying the
FLSA collective action under Rule 23; sufficient evidence was produced to
support a "reasonable inference" of classwide liability where plaintiffs
used individual time sheets, along with average time calculated from a
sample of 744 observations of employees donning, doffing and walking to
prove their claims; evidence was sufficient to account for any
uncompensated work. Judge Beam, dissenting.