Opinion ID: 158595
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Labor claim

Text: The Korenys owned and operated the Cawthon Motel & Campground in Las Animas, Colorado, where Mr. Pepe was employed as a manager and Ms. Holden as a housekeeper. Mr. Pepe was responsible for daily tasks such as signing in guests, mowing the lawn and shoveling snow. Ms. Holden primarily cleaned the motel rooms. They alleged that each worked over 98 hours per week without compensation for overtime. After hearing testimony and examining the evidence, the district court found the claim of hours worked to be “absurd.” Rec., supp. vol. I, at 151. Moreover, the court described Mr. Pepe’s and Ms. Holden’s testimonies to be evasive and incredible. Id. at 151-52. On those grounds, the district court found in favor of the Korenys. -2- On appeal, Mr. Pepe and Ms. Holden argue error. However, the record on appeal does not contain any of the trial transcript other than the district court’s ruling. When an appellant challenges a trial court’s fact findings but fails to include a transcript of all the relevant evidence, we cannot review the lower courts’ findings and must accept them as true. Trujillo v. Grand Junction Reg’l Ctr., 928 F.2d 973, 976 (10th Cir. 1991). Because plaintiffs did not file a trial transcript as part of the record on appeal, they have waived any claim that the trial court’s ruling was unsupported by or contrary to the evidence. See Deines v. Vermeer Mfg. Co., 969 F.2d 977 (10th Cir. 1992). Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s disposition of the FLSA claims.