ATLANTA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS UNION v. ATLANTA

No. 89-8671.

920 F.2d 800 (1991)

ATLANTA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS UNION, LOCAL 134; Larry R. Atchley; Curley D. Davis; David A. McLane; Thomas C. Doyle; David W. Taylor; Dennis L. Gray and Carlton S. Hardin, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF ATLANTA; George Napper, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety; and William H. Hamer, in his official capacity as Fire Chief, Bureau of Fire Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 7, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Lee Parks, Meals Kirwan Goger Winter & Parks, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

David R. Blum, Marva Jones Brooks, Office of Attorney for City of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before HATCHETT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge.


HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

In this Fair Labor Standards Act case, we affirm the district court's ruling that the city of Atlanta properly applied the Act to captains, lieutenants, and firefighters, in its Bureau of Fire Services.

On February 19, 1986, the Supreme Court announced in Garcia v. San Antonio Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528, 105 S.Ct. 1005, 83 L.Ed.2d 1016 (1985), that the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor...

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