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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Denial of Overtime Compensation

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IN THE UNITED ST ATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

JONESBORO DIVISION 

PEDRO PALMA, Individually 

and on Behalf of all Others 

Similarly Situated 

v. No. 3:18-cv-208-DPM 

WEST MEMPHIS FENCE & 

CONSTRUCTION, INC. 

ORDER 

PLAINTIFF 

DEFENDANT 

The Court regrets its delay in addressing the parties' concise joint 

report. On the whole, West Memphis Fence's reading of the Court's 

April Order is the better one. The Court envisioned targeted discovery 

about the employee/ independent contractor issue-interrogatories, 

requests for production, and a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition about West 

Memphis Fence's engagement of sub-contractors, like the one the 

company says employed Palma. Some basic information about the 

number of people who worked through the sub-contractors is fair 

game, too. From that limited discovery, it should be plain whether 

there exists a substantially similar and numerous group of folks who 

were arguably employed by West Memphis Fence, albeit jointly with 

other companies. Palma should not, at this point, engage in standard 

group-wide discovery. The parties must make another run at the 

threshold issues. 

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Joint report, NQ 32, addressed. Motion for extension, NQ 34, 

granted as modified. Renewed motion for conditional certification due 

by 22 November 2019. An Amended Final Scheduling Order will issue. 

So Ordered. 

D.P. Marshaff Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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