IRIZARRY v. CATSIMATIDIS

Docket No. 11-4035-cv.

722 F.3d 99 (2013)

Bobby IRIZARRY, Ruben Mora, Joselito Arocho, Joseph Crema, Alfred Croker, Frank Deleon, Mario Dipreta, William Helwig, Robert Misuraca, Robert Pastorino, Victor Phelps, Daniel Salegna, Gilberto Santiago, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Carlos Torres, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Lewis Chewning, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, Raymond Allen, Llanos Blas, Nabil Elfiky, Mohammed Dabash, Carlos Martinez, Luis Morales, Steve Grossman, Franklyn Collado, David Adler, Dino A. Zaino, Patrick Labella, Robert Mastronicola, Anthony Brooks, Victor Bennett, Candido Morel, Jose Martinez, Wayne Hendricks, Harold Horn, Troy Miller, Ousmane Diatta, Elliot Stone, Tina Rodriguez, Gabriel Karamanian, Brian Homola, Anna Garrett, Nelson Betancourt, Jose Delacruz, Yuri Lamarche, Michael Groseclose, Rodolfo Delemos, Pio Morel, Abigail Claudio, Malick Diouf, David Otto, Alejandro Morales, Victor Diaz, Paul Petrosino, Eduardo Gonzalez, Jr., Jose Bonilla-Reyes, Vincent Perez, Martin Gonzalez, Calvin Adams, William Fritz, Katherine Halpern, Christian Tejada, Edward Stokes, Plinio Medina, Towana Starks, Lawson Hopkins, Ruben M. Aleman, Eugene Rybacki, Earl Cross, Manolo Hiraldo, Robert Hairston, Plaintiffs, v. John CATSIMATIDIS, Defendant-Appellant. Gristede's Operating Corp., Gristede's Foods Ny, Inc., Namdor, Inc., Gristede's Foods, Inc., City Produce Operating Corp., Defendants-Counter-Claimants, Gallo Balseca, James Monos, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 9, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan D. Hacker ( Walter Dellinger , Brianne J. Gorod , Joanna Nairn , on the brief), O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.

Deepak Gupta , Gupta Beck PLLC, Washington, D.C. ( Gregory A. Beck , Jonathan E. Taylor , Gupta Beck PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Adam T. Klein , Justin M. Swartz , Molly A. Brooks , Outten & Golden LLP, New York, NY, on the brief) for Appellees.

Rachel Goldberg , Attorney, Office of the Solicitor, ( M. Patricia Smith , Solicitor of Labor, Jennifer S. Brand , Associate Solicitor, Paul L. Frieden , Counsel for Appellate Litigation, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae Secretary of Labor.

Tsedeye Gebreselassie , Catherine K. Ruckelshaus , National Employment Law Project, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Make The Road New York, Brandworkers International, Restaurant Opportunities Center New York, Chinese Staff and Workers Association, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, National Employment Law Project, Legal Aid Society of New York, Urban Justice Center, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Before: WESLEY and HALL, Circuit Judges, GOLDBERG, Judge.


WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

After the failure of a settlement in a wage-and-hour case brought by a group of employees of Gristede's supermarkets, the plaintiff employees moved for partial summary judgment on the issue of whether John Catsimatidis, the chairman and CEO of Gristede's Foods, Inc., could be held personally liable for damages. The case turns on whether Catsimatidis is an "employer" under the Fair Labor Standards Act...

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