Court Opinion

ID: 9487551
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:20:05.965021+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:21.087232
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HANSEN, Circuit Judge, dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. While I understand the Supreme Court has instructed us not to interpret the FLSA “in a narrow, grudging manner,” Tennessee Coal, Iron & R.R. Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 122, 321 U.S. 590, 597, 64 S.Ct. 698, 702, 88 L.Ed. 949 (1944), neither do I understand the Supreme Court to have authorized us to amend the statute by effectively adding the words “or because the employer mistakenly believes the employee has done or is about to do any of the above,” to it, which is what our court’s opinion does. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.