Opinion ID: 1213759
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Heading: Motion to dismiss Dellarussiani plaintiffs from O'Brien appeal

Text: Arguing that we lack subject-matter jurisdiction due to mootness, defendants move to dismiss from the O'Brien appeal the plaintiffs who splintered off from the O'Brien case following decertification so that they could file individual claims in Dellarussiani. The motion is granted in part and denied in part. We explain why in four parts: (A) mootness due to Dellarussiani judgment on counts I and II; (B) defendants' argument that mootness of the FLSA claim necessarily renders any supplemental claims moot; (C) the hurdle of res judicata for the Dellarussiani plaintiffs' Prompt Pay Act claim in O'Brien; (D) and the res judicata bar against the common-law claims that Dellarussiani plaintiffs have in O'Brien.
Because we affirm the district court's entry of judgment in the Dellarussiani plaintiffs' favor on counts I and II, any of the plaintiffs' corresponding claims in O'Brien  claims that they hope to maintain if the district court's decertification is reversed on appeal  are now moot. There is no longer a live controversy as to the FLSA and the corresponding Ohio wage-payment claim, Gottfried v. Med. Planning Servs., Inc., 280 F.3d 684, 691 (6th Cir. 2002), because there is no other relief that plaintiffs could obtain on those claims in O'Brien, given our overall affirmance of the district court's rulings in Dellarussiani and our remand of the attorney-fees issue in Dellarussiani.