132036P.pdf   08/25/2014  Maria Guyton  v.  Tyson Foods
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-2036
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Beam and Smith, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Fair Labor Standards Act. In action alleging the time Tyson 
   allotted to cover compensable pre- and post-production line activities 
   ("donning and doffing") was insufficient and violated the FLSA, the 
   district court did not err in refusing to give two prior Eighth Circuit 
   cases preclusive effect as those cases covered the compensability of 
   donning and doffing unique items related to knife use, and the claims here 
   included employees who did not use knifes; jury responses on the verdict 
   form were not inconsistent, given the evidence in the case regarding 
   compensable and non-compensable work; sufficient evidence supported the 
   jury verdict that certain disputed activities were not "integral and 
   indispensable" classwide, and sufficient evidence supported the finding 
   that plaintiffs failed to prove damages for knife users; no error in 
   submitting the question of whether Tyson acted in good faith under 29 
   U.S.C. Sec. 259(a) to the jury; evidentiary challenges rejected; the 
   district court did not err in granting Tyson summary judgment on 
   plaintiffs' claim that time spent donning and doffing during a 35-minute 
   meal period was compensable, as the meal period as a whole was for the 
   benefit of the employees.