Case ID: ga-app_139/html/0009-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Clark, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

52261.
    BROOKS v. GILBERT.
   Clark, Judge.

This is an action to recover overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 USCA § 201 et seq.). Summary judgment was awarded to defendant employer and plaintiff employee appealed.

The evidence adduced upon the defendant’s summary judgment motion shows that the plaintiff worked as a secretary in defendant’s Georgia law firm; that the firm was engaged exclusively in the practice of law; that more than 80% of the firm’s annual dollar volume was generated within this state; and that the firm’s annual dollar volume never exceeded $225,000. Held:

Submitted June 7, 1976

Decided June 11, 1976.

Gilbert & Blum, Fred A. Gilbert, for appellee.

The defendant was exempt from the overtime compensation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 29 USCA § 213. Accordingly, the trial court did not err in awarding summary judgment to defendant.

Judgment affirmed.

Bell, C. J., and Stolz, J., concur.