Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation

Holding the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to admit affidavits in support of standing when filed after summary judgment briefing and hearing were complete

Little v. Liquid Air Corp.

Holding that a mere scintilla of evidence does not create a genuine issue of material fact

IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez

Holding that time spent walking between the locker room and the production area after donning protective gear is compensable work under the FLSA

Edwards v. Aguillard

Holding that Louisiana's Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public School Instruction Act was unconstitutional because the act's primary purpose was the promotion of a particular religious belief

Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.

Holding that, where employer's records are inadequate, "an employee has carried out his burden if he proves that he has in fact performed work for which he was improperly compensated and if he produces sufficient evidence to show the amount and extent of that work as a matter of just and reasonable inference."

American Eagle Airlines v. Air Line Pilots

Concluding the arbitrator exceed his jurisdiction by crafting an alternate remedy because under the language of the relevant CBA, "[o]nce just cause existed ... there was no jurisdiction for the Board to permit any outcome other than [the employee]'s termination"

Bonilla v. Baker Concrete Const

Holding that the time that airport construction workers spent going through a mandatory security screening, although necessary, was not compensable

Terrebonne Parish Sch. v. Columbia Gulf Trans

Finding that the Louisiana suppletive law of property applies if the parties do not specify the use and extent of the servitude

Smith v. Aztec Well Servicing Co.

Holding that undue delay is an appropriate justification for denying leave to amend under Rule 15

Singh v. City of New York

Holding that fire alarm inspectors who departed from home to the first inspection site of the day and returned home from the last inspection site of the day, all the while carrying a briefcase of materials for the inspection, were not eligible for FLSA protection for their commute to and from home

Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit

Section 254 - Relief from liability and punishment under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Walsh-Healey Act, and the Bacon-Davis Act for failure to pay minimum wage or overtime compensation

Precluding compensation for certain travel that "occur either prior to the time on any particular workday at which such employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases, such principal activity or activities"

Section 790.8 - "Principal" activities

Explaining that the term "principal activities" was "considered sufficiently broad to embrace within its terms such activities as are indispensable to the performance of productive work "

Section 790.7 - "Preliminary" and "postliminary" activities

Classifying "changing clothes" as a preliminary/post liminary activity

Section 785.35 - Home to work; ordinary situation