Court Opinion

ID: 9459612
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:25:55.081437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:14.768452
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PECK, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
Because I do not conclude that appellee’s business is non-exempt as a financial institution (Mitchell v. Kentucky Finance Company, 359 U.S. 290, 295, 79 S.Ct. 756, 3 L.Ed.2d 815 (1959)), and conclude as did the District Court that it was instead a “retail or service establishment” within the meaning of 29 U. S.C. § 213, I must respectfully dissent. As to the former, I find the analogy to banks, insurance companies, building and loan associations, and credit companies not to be persuasive. As to the latter, while recognizing the burden of proof normally on the operator of a business in this regard (Arnold v. Kanowsky, 361 U.S. 388, 394, 80 S.Ct. 453, 4 L.Ed.2d 393 (1960)), I conclude appellee’s services not to be capable of resale as a matter of law, from which it must follow that its operation could not be other than retail or service, and I would accordingly affirm the judgment of the District Court.