Publication Date: 2020-07-01
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Andrews
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian D. Long, Rigrodsky&Long, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Ted E. Trief, Shelly L. Friedland, EyalDror, Trief&Olk, New York, NY; Peter S. Pearlman, Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook, NJ; Macy D. Hanson, The Law Office of Macy D. Hanson, PLLC, Madison, MS for plaintiffs.
for defendant: J. Cory Falgowski, Burr & Forman LLP, Wilmington, DE; K. Bryance Metheny, Ronald W. Flowers, Jr., Martin E. Burke, H. Carlton Hilson, Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, AL for defendant.
Case Number: D69030
Court declined to dismiss opt-in plaintiffs from wage and hour collective action on grounds of judicial estoppel for those plaintiffs' failures to disclose their claims on their bankruptcy petition, where those plaintiffs either retained the opportunity to amend their bankruptcy petitions or where any inference of bad faith was not strong enough to warrant the sanction of dismissal.