In, perhaps, the most important wage and hour class action post-Comcast, the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Judge J. Paul Oetken) granted in part and denied in part a pharmacy chain’s motion for reconsideration of the court’s previous order certifying a class of assistant store managers’ (“ASMs”) state law

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York decertified a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act and denied the plaintiff’s motion for class certification of the state law claims under Rule 23.  Tracy v. NVR, Inc. (W.D.N.Y. 4.29.13).  Plaintiffs alleged that the national home-builder misclassified them as non-exempt sales and

Following  the granting of conditional certification under FLSA 216(b) in July 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr.) granted the plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class of umpires who alleged that the United States Tennis Association’s (USTA) improperly classified them as “independent contractors” 

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Judge Richard A. Jones) denied a motion to certify a class of more than 2,000 call-center customer account executives (“CAEs”) under Rule 23(b)(3) holding that individualized issues predominated over common questions.   Ginsburg et. al. v. Comcast Communications Mgmt. LLC, 2013 U.S. Dist.