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ALEWINE v. CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA, GA.

Nos. 81-7490, 81-7789.

699 F.2d 1060 (1983)

Jimmy Allen ALEWINE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Defendant-Appellee. C.D. JOINER, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF MACON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 19, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Wilkinson, III, Augusta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 81-7490.

Stephen E. Shepard, Samuel F. Maguire, Stanley G. Jackson, Harris, McCracken & Jackson, N. Kenneth Daniel, Augusta, Ga., William T. Coleman, Jr., Washington, D.C., for City of Augusta.

O'Melveny & Myers, William T. Coleman, Jr., Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for American Public Transit Ass'n.

Jones, Cork, Miller & Benton, W. Warren Plowden, Jr., Macon, Ga., William T. Coleman, Jr., Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant in No. 81-7789.

Mincey & Kenmore, David L. Mincey, Macon, Ga., Jacobs, Burns, Sugarman & Orlove, Linda Hirshman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees in No. 81-7789.

Joseph M. Woodward, Beate Bloch, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for intervenor United States.

Before TJOFLAT and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 19, 1983.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

These cases, consolidated on appeal, require that we decide whether a municipality's operation of an urban mass transit system constitutes a traditional governmental function. If so, the tenth amendment limitation upon congressional exercise of the commerce power bars application of the overtime compensation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S. C.A. § 207...

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