PATEL v. QUALITY INN SOUTH

No. 87-7411.

846 F.2d 700 (1988)

Rajni J. PATEL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. QUALITY INN SOUTH, Manibhai Patel and Dilip Patel, Sumani Corp., Inc., Defendant-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 8, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Boles, Birmingham, Ala., Bob Humphries, Montgomery, Ala., Gay C. Danforth, Altshuler & Berzon, Michael Rubin San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Bette J. Briggs, Office of Sol., Steven J. Mandel, George R. Salem, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for Dept. of Labor.

Robert H. Gibbs, Gibbs, Douglas, Theiler & Drachler, Seattle, Wash., amicus curiae for American Civil Liberties Union, et al.

Joseph L, Boohaker, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Daniel Hoyt Smith, Smith, Midgley & Pumplin, Seattle, Wash., amicus curiae for American Immigration Lawyers Ass'n.

Daniel A. Stein, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for Immigration Reform Law Inst.

Peggy Mastroianni, E.E.O.C., Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for E.E.O.C.

Before VANCE and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.


VANCE, Circuit Judge:

In this action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-19, plaintiff Rajni Patel, an undocumented alien, appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment for the defendants. See 660 F.Supp. 1528 (N.D.Ala.1987). In granting the defendants' motion for summary judgment the district court concluded that undocumented aliens could not recover in an action under the...

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