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AVILA v. LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPT.

Nos. 12-55931, 12-56554.

758 F.3d 1096 (2014)

Leonard AVILA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, Defendant, and City of Los Angeles; Commander Stuart Maislin, Defendants-Appellants. Leonard Avila, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Los Angeles Police Department, Defendant, and City of Los Angeles, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 10, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory A. Wedner (argued), Mark K. Kitabayashi , and Sloan R. Simmons , Lozano Smith , Los Angeles, for Defendants-Appellants.

Matthew S. McNicholas and Douglas D. Winter , McNicholas & McNicholas, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Stuart B. Esner (argued) and Andrew N. Chang , Esner, Chang & Boyer, Pasadena, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: BARRY G. SILVERMAN and ANDREW D. HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and C. ROGER VINSON, Senior District Judge.

OPINION

HURWITZ, Circuit Judge:

Leonard Avila, a police officer, periodically worked through his lunch break but did not claim overtime. According to his commanding officer, Avila was a model officer. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), however, deemed Avila insubordinate for not claiming overtime and fired him.

Not coincidentally, that termination occurred only after Avila had testified in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuit brought...

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