SOLER v. G. & U., INC.

Nos. 789, 790, Dockets 86-6166, 86-6190.

833 F.2d 1104 (1987)

Francisco SOLER, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. G. & U., INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants, and Secretary, United States Department of Labor, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Bean, New York City (Donald S. Kruger, Judson K. Siebert, John W. Whittlesey, Keane & Beane, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Frederick M. Lawrence, New York City (Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty. for the Southern District of New York, Steven E. Obus, Asst. U.S. Atty., on brief, George R. Salem, Sol. of Labor, Allen H. Feldman, Assoc. Sol. for Special Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation, Carol A. DeDeo, Deputy Assoc. Sol., Edward D. Sieger, U.S. Dept. of Labor, of counsel), for Federal defendants-appellants.

Thomas A. Harnett, Newburgh, N.Y. (Claudia A. Smith, Walter H. Reuhle, Farmworkers Legal Services of New York, Inc., Newburgh, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Jeffrey H. Kirby, New York Farm Bureau, Inc., Glenmont, N.Y., Michael J. Steintjes, American Farm Bureau Federation, Park Ridge, Ill., on brief (Lance D. Taylor, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), as amicus-curiae.

Before OAKES and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and ZAMPANO, District Judge.


ZAMPANO, District Judge:

The central issue raised on these appeals is whether the district court erred in setting aside as arbitrary and capricious the determination by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Administrator ("Administrator") that certain housing facilities furnished to migrant farm workers primarily benefited the workers and, therefore, could qualify in part as "wages" under § 3(m) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1983 ("FLSA"), as amended,...

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