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Amazon prevailed in federal court in a lawsuit brought by a trio of plaintiffs, who claimed the giant shortchanged Connecticut workers by not compensating them for the time they spent in security checks as they left their shifts.

Javier Del Rio, Colin Meunier, and Aaron DeLaRoche had sought class-action status for their lawsuit on behalf of some 10,000 employees at Amazon fulfillment centers in Connecticut. In court documents, the trio said they worked at the company's big facilities in North Haven and Windsor in alternating roles as stowers, packers, line straightening and "induct" as described in the lawsuit.

In a point-by-point court rebuttal last October, Amazon stated it discontinued the practice of screening employees on March 15, 2020, which coincides with "social distancing" measures adopted at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Thursday in Bridgeport federal court, Judge Kari Dooley cited a U.S. Supreme Court decision from 2014 in granting a motion for summary judgment in Amazon's favor, more than two years after the case was moved from Connecticut Superior Court in Hartford.

In February, Amazon and a staffing company reached a $7.2 million settlement with Pennsylvania warehouse workers who had objected to not being paid for the time spent undergoing security screens, on the heels of a 2021 ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Amazon prevailed in March in Oregon litigation on the issue.

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