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BLANTON v. CITY OF MURFREESBORO

No. 87-5934.

856 F.2d 731 (1988)

Donald BLANTON, Jimmy Francis, Gary Ralston, Ernest Johnson, James Robert Jones, Jr., Jerry L. McCullough, and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF MURFREESBORO; Joe B. Jackson; E.C. Fite, Jr.; Robert W. Scales; W. Richard Reeves; Mary F. Huhta; Roger G. Haley; John B. Pittard; and Martin McCullough, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Reed, Jr., Murfreesboro, Tenn., William N. Ozier (argued), Bass, Berry & Sims, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Thomas A. Woodley, Mulholland and Hickey, Washington, D.C., Gregory K. McGillivary (argued), John D. Schwalb, Bolin, Ash, & Schwalb, Murfreesboro, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before MARTIN, WELLFORD and NELSON, Circuit Judges.

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.

The City of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, appeals the grant of summary judgment for Donald Blanton and other similarly situated city fire fighters in this action under the provisions of section 8 of the 1985 Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act, Public Law 99-150, 29 U.S.C.A. § 215. This case presents an issue of first impression: whether a municipality's downward adjustment of the base wage rates of its fire fighters so...

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