Seated from left: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, standing from left: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
A group of more than 500 Taco Bell employees brought their case for wage theft before the justices of the Supreme Court on Monday, arguing that they should not be forced to arbitrate their massive dispute. Several justices grilled the employee-petitioners’ attorney about that position.
The case is Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., a lawsuit involving hundreds of Taco Bell employees who say they’ve been illegally cheated out of overtime pay by Sundance, Inc., a company that owns over 150 Taco Bell franchises. Lead plaintiff Robyn Morgan was an hourly employee at a Sundance-owned Taco Bell in Iowa. Morgan says Sundance forced workers to clock out before the end of their shifts, failed to pay employees’ overtime, and engaged in wide scale wage theft. Morgan and over 500 others brought a lawsuit in 2018 for violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on behalf of all hourly employees of the company.
The issue before the justices is whether the case should be heard by a judge (as the workers argue) or by an arbitrator (as Sundance contends). After the class action lawsuit was filed, the parties attempted to settle the case using mediation....
An Indian national faces multiple charges in the US for falsely claiming citizenship to vote in the 2024 elections, risking a decade in prison. Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari, an Indian national, ...