BATEMAN v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Nos. 6171, 6208.

76 F.Supp. 178 (1948)

BATEMAN et al. v. FORD MOTOR CO. FISCH et al. v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION.

District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

February 27, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Lamb, of Toledo, Ohio, and Ernest Goodman, Jack N. Tucker, and N. L. Smokler, all of Detroit, Mich. (Nicholas J. Rothe, of Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Beaumont, Smith & Harris, Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy, and Henry M. Hogan, all of Detroit, Mich., for defendants.

Before O'BRIEN, LEDERLE, PICARD, KOSCINSKI, and LEVIN, District Judges.


PICARD, District Judge announced the unanimous opinion of the court.

These two cases are representative of the deluge of Fair Labor Standards actions catapulted into our judicial tribunals by interpretations of the Supreme Court's decision in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 328 U.S. 680, 66 S.Ct. 1187, 90 L. Ed. 1515. Potential liability under those claims amounted to billions of dollars, affecting not only the parties directly...

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