VELEZ v. SANCHEZ

Docket No. 11-90-cv.

693 F.3d 308 (2012)

Linda VELEZ, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Betsy SANCHEZ, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellee, Shari Munoz, Yolanda Munoz, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees, v. Hernando Sanchez, Third-Party-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 31, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew S. Amer , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sheldon Karasik , Simon, Eisenberg & Baum, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Suzanne B. Goldberg , New York, NY, for the Sexuality & Gender Law Clinic of Columbia Law School as amicus curiae in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before: RAGGI and DRONEY, Circuit Judges, and MATSUMOTO, District Judge.


DRONEY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment against the plaintiff and its prior grant of a motion to dismiss one count of the amended complaint. Plaintiff-Appellant Linda Velez ("Velez") brought this action against Betsy Sanchez ("Sanchez"), Sanchez's sister Shari Munoz, and Sanchez's and Shari's mother Yolanda Munoz under the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"),...

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