MAY v. ARKANSAS FORESTRY COM'N

No. 92-1870.

993 F.2d 632 (1993)

Jackie MAY; Ray Cross; Robert Ellis; Tom Phillips; Pamela G. Anderson; Stephen Anderson; Lawrence Ault; Jim M. Barham; Jimmy Barnes; John William Beasley; Alvin W. Black; Retha Bogan; Robert Bogan; C.W. Bohn; Nada Cearley; Bill E. Chaney; Blair Chaney; Dan Chilcoat; Gary Denise Cooper; John Crump; Thomas W. Edington; B. Keith Eiland; Travis England; Roger L. Freeman; Richard Wayne Gentry; Andy Gitchell; Kathy Glass; L.P. Glass; Todd Gore; Greg B. Gortemiller; Jimmy Green; Calvin Hale, Jr.; Wilmer Harris, Doug Harvill; Brenda Hawthorne; J.W. Hornbeck; Greg S. Johnston; Grady E. Jones; Melvin Jones; Steven M. Jones; J.L. Kennedy; Bobby G. Lane; Archie Lynn; Bruce B. McCrackin; Jimmy McEntire; William Mansfield; Eddie Mayberry; Thom A. Means; Johnnie Minter; Max O. Morman; Wanda Jean Moten; John K. Murphy; Bobby L. Nelson; Lewis A. Nelson; Nellie R. Nichols; Charles A. Pate; Bradley Pierce; John D. Pogue; C.N. Ratecliff; Larry W. Rinehart; Thomas M. Rinehart; Timothy R. Robertson; Tim Lesley Rushing; Stan Sanders; M.H. Sherwood, Jr.; Earl E. Slaton; Larry G. Smith; Nick Smith; Steve Smith; David Spanhanks; Bill Titsworth; Clinton J. Triplett; James D. Wagner; James Wall; Lynn L. Waller; Wayne Ward; Paul Watkins; Gerald C. Webb; Rodney Welch; Tim West; Robert E. Whitworth; Billy J. Williams; Jackie D. Williams; Roy N. May; Joseph D. Ardwin; J.D. Baxter; Douglas Cherry; J.R. Shuffield; John P. Slater; Willard Speers; J.S. Tomlin; Donald W. Vaughn; James W. Wilson; Coy Buford; Joseph A. Neil; Donald B. Talley; Artie C. Clark; Claude N. Gray, Appellees, v. ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 14, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rick D. Hogan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, AR, argued (Mary B. Stallcup, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellant.

Philip E. Kaplan, Little Rock, AR, argued (Silas Brewer, Jr., on the brief), for appellees.

Before WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge, BEAM, Circuit Judge, and NANGLE, District Judge.


BEAM, Circuit Judge.

The Arkansas Forestry Commission ("Commission") appeals a jury verdict awarding its employees back pay for hours they spent on call from April 4, 1987, to January 16, 1990. The Commission alleges numerous grounds for reversal including: Tenth Amendment immunity, improper jury instructions, and improper evidentiary rulings. We affirm the decision of the district court.

I. BACKGROUND

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