Plaintiffs who opt into a collective action under the FLSA are parties with standing to appeal a decertification order that disposes of their right to proceed collectively.
Police officers filed collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act alleging an unwritten policy discouraged overtime reporting. After discovery, the district court decertified the actions and dismissed the opt-in plaintiffs, finding they were not similarly situated. The officers appealed, arguing they had standing to challenge the decertification. The court holds that opt-in plaintiffs are parties to a collective action and have standing to appeal a decertification order that disposes of their statutory right to proceed collectively. Furthermore, the court determines that plaintiffs are similarly situated if they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their claims.
At page 1100 Defining commencement of FLSA collective action under § 216(b)63 citing cases“(1) claim a violation of the flsa, (2) are 'similarly situated,' and (3) affirmatively opt in to the joint litigation, in writing.”
- Wieben, No. 3:24-cv-00575 (D. Nev. Aug. 14, 2026). (ECF No. 71 at 13-14 & n.5 (quoting 21 22 9See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“In the absence of any statutory directive, the 23 proper means of managing a collective action—the form and timing of notice, the timing of motions, the extent of…
- Silloway, No. 3:20-cv-07400 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 17, 2025). See id. at 1120 (“That the policy is Department-wide is essential to the viability of the 20 collective action, as it is the sole justification advanced for a Department-wide collective action.”). 21 The Ninth Circuit affirmed the decertif…
- Greist v. LendUS, LLC, No. 3:24-cv-02411 (N.D. Cal. June 6, 2025). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1101 (“‘The sole consequence’ of a successful 4 motion for preliminary certification is ‘the sending of court-approved written notice’ to workers 5 who may wish to join the litigation as individuals.”); see also Harri…
- Atkins v. VCE Theaters, LLC, No. 3:23-cv-01332 (D. Or. Nov. 14, 2024). Or. Jan. 9, 2024) (rejecting the defendant’s objection to sending notice to potential collective members whose claims were time-barred and finding “[t]he Court is satisfied that the proper approach [is] to be as inclusive of potential plai…
- Greene v. Cascadia Healthcare, LLC, No. 1:23-cv-00253 (D. Idaho Oct. 15, 2024). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1109 (“Preliminary certification, as noted, refers to the dissemination of notice to putative collective members, conditioned on a preliminary determination that the collective as defined in the complaint satisfie…
- Zeman v. Twitter, Inc., 747 F. Supp. 3d 1275 (N.D. Cal. 2024).published (Given . . . gaps [in the FLSA], much of 26 collective action practice is a product of interstitial judicial lawmaking or ad hoc district court 27 1 discretion.)
- Perry v. Hardeman Cnty. Goverment, No. 1:19-cv-01106 (W.D. Tenn. May 8, 2024). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1117 (“Decertification, in the sense the term is typically used, comes after relevant discovery is complete, and in that respect resembles a motion for summary judgment.”) (collecting cases).
- Williams v. Aramark Campus, LLC, No. 1:23-cv-00291 (E.D. Cal. Jan. 29, 2024).(Collective actions and class actions are creatures of distinct texts—collective actions of 16 section 216(b), and class actions of Rule 23 —that impose distinct requirements.)
- Hershman v. Full Spectrum Laser LLC, No. 2:21-cv-02245 (D. Nev. Feb. 27, 2023). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1117 (“Party plaintiffs 9 are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of 10 law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims.”).
- Roberts v. Sidwell Air Freight Inc, No. 3:21-cv-05912, 2022 WL 16949565 (W.D. Wash. Nov. 15, 2022). Id. at 1117 (“Because preliminary certification is not challenged 10 in this case, we address only the standard the district court should apply to post-discovery 11 decertification.”).
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- Chavez v. Stellar Mgmt. Grp. VII, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-01353, 2020 WL 4505482 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 5, 2020). ([M]uch of collective 17 action practice is a product of interstitial judicial lawmaking or ad hoc district court discretion.)
- McNutt v. Swift Transp. Co of Arizona, LLC, No. 3:18-cv-05668, 2020 WL 3819239 (W.D. Wash. July 7, 2020). (Campbell)
- Chetwood v. T-Mobile USA Inc, No. 2:19-cv-00458, 2020 WL 1689730 (W.D. Wash. Apr. 7, 2020). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1117 (“Because preliminary certification is not challenged in this case, we 26 address only the standard the district court should apply to post-discovery decertification.”).
- Josephine Tijerino v. Stetson Desert Proj., LLC, 934 F.3d 968 (9th Cir. 2019).published
- Wash. State Nurses Ass'n v. Cmty. Health Sys., Inc., 469 P.3d 300 (Wash. 2020).published
- Weeks v. Matrix Absence Mgmt. Inc., 494 F. Supp. 3d 653 (D. Ariz. 2020).published
- Cabanillas v. 4716 Inc., No. 2:20-cv-00894 (D. Ariz. Aug. 25, 2021).
- Vega v. All My Sons Bus. Dev. LLC, 583 F. Supp. 3d 1244 (D. Ariz. 2022).published
- Harris v. Nat'l Waterproofing & Roofing LLC, No. 2:21-cv-01537 (D. Ariz. Sept. 7, 2022).
- Stoddard v. Disc. Tire Co., No. 3:23-cv-08114 (D. Ariz. Sept. 21, 2023).
- Gilburd v. Rocket Mortg. LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00010 (D. Ariz. Dec. 7, 2023).
- Mishra v. Cognizant Tech. Solutions U.S. Corp., No. 2:17-cv-01785 (E.D. Cal. June 1, 2020).
- Hernandez v. Dutton Ranch Corp., No. 3:19-cv-00817 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 17, 2020).
- Magana-Munoz v. West Coast Berry Farms, LLC, No. 5:20-cv-02087 (N.D. Cal. July 9, 2020).
- Forsyth v. HP Inc., No. 5:16-cv-04775, 2021 WL 1391501 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 13, 2021).
- Darling v. Dignity Health, No. 4:20-cv-06043 (N.D. Cal. July 20, 2021).
- Monplaisir v. Integrated Tech Grp., LLC, No. 3:19-cv-01484 (N.D. Cal. May 12, 2022).
- Loera, Jr. v. Cnty. of Alameda, No. 3:23-cv-00792 (N.D. Cal. July 13, 2023).
- Costa v. Apple, Inc., No. 3:23-cv-01353, 2023 WL 8101980 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 21, 2023).
- Hayslip v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, No. 1:22-cv-00410 (D. Haw. Apr. 28, 2023).
- Richter v. AutoZoners, LLC, No. 9:22-cv-00047 (D. Mont. Nov. 7, 2023).
- Thompson v. Applied Servs. Augmentation Partners, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-00127 (W.D.N.C. Oct. 31, 2019).
- Genc v. Imperial Pac. Int'l (CNMI), LLC, No. 1:20-cv-00031 (D. N. Mar. I. Feb. 24, 2022).
- Johnson v. INTU Corp., No. 2:18-cv-02361 (D. Nev. Feb. 28, 2020).
- Harris v. Diamond Dolls of Nevada, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-00598 (D. Nev. Mar. 2, 2020).
- Nelson v. Wal-Mart Assocs., Inc., No. 3:21-cv-00066 (D. Nev. Aug. 23, 2022).
- Coyne v. Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep't, No. 2:22-cv-00475 (D. Nev. Aug. 15, 2023).
- Woodburn v. City of Henderson, No. 2:19-cv-01488 (D. Nev. Oct. 19, 2023).
- Hunter v. Legacy Health, No. 3:18-cv-02219, 2021 WL 24553 (D. Or. Jan. 4, 2021).
- Barker v. CDR Maguire Inc., No. 6:21-cv-01720 (D. Or. June 2, 2022).
- Barker v. CDR Maguire Inc., No. 6:21-cv-01720 (D. Or. July 25, 2022).
- Terry v. Hodges, No. 6:22-cv-01668 (D. Or. Jan. 9, 2024).
- Hammond v. Floor & Decor Outlets of Am., Inc., No. 3:19-cv-01099, 2020 WL 2473717 (M.D. Tenn. May 13, 2020).
- Kiani v. Automatic Data Processing Inc., No. 4:23-cv-00508 (D. Ariz. June 4, 2024).
- Tay v. New York & Presbyterian Hosp., No. 7:22-cv-08379, 2024 WL 4286226 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 24, 2024).
- Edmonds v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:19-cv-01613 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 9, 2020).
- Randall v. Integrated Commc'n Serv. Inc, No. 3:20-cv-05438, 2021 WL 2328373 (W.D. Wash. June 8, 2021).
- Gutierrez v. E&E Foods, No. 2:21-cv-00682 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 17, 2021).
- Hamilton v. NuWest Grp. Holdings LLC, No. 2:22-cv-01117 (W.D. Wash. May 22, 2023).
- Dunne v. Quantum Residential Inc, No. 3:23-cv-05535 (W.D. Wash. June 18, 2024).
- Vanorden v. ECP Optometry Servs. LLC, No. 2:24-cv-01060, 2024 WL 5200483 (D. Ariz. Dec. 23, 2024).
- Fuller v. Cabinetworks Michigan, LLC, No. 4:24-cv-01618 (M.D. Pa. Jan. 31, 2025).
- Salgado v. Flowers Foods Inc., No. 4:22-cv-00420 (D. Ariz. Feb. 28, 2025).
- Myers v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., No. 3:24-cv-02668 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 20, 2025).
- Johnson v. Desert Fire LLC, No. 6:25-cv-00037 (D. Or. July 9, 2025).
- Park, No. 2:25-cv-01350 (D. Nev. Dec. 5, 2025).
- Cervantes, No. 3:25-cv-00275 (S.D. Cal. Dec. 15, 2025).
- Walters, No. 2:25-cv-00482 (D. Idaho June 12, 2026).
- Ruben, No. 4:25-cv-00228 (D. Ariz. June 9, 2026).
- Gloria Flores v. Walmart, Inc., No. 2:25-cv-10412 (C.D. Cal. June 3, 2026).
- Stephen Schaaf v. Cret LLC, No. 2:25-cv-00647 (D. Nev. Sept. 16, 2026).
- Andrew Harrington v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., 142 F.4th 678 (9th Cir. 2025).published
At page 1109 Analyzing the two-stage process for FLSA collective action certification56 citing cases“may sometimes be supplemented by declarations or limited other evidence.”
- Wieben, No. 3:24-cv-00575 (D. Nev. Aug. 14, 2026). (ECF No. 71 at 13-14 & n.5 (quoting 21 22 9See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“In the absence of any statutory directive, the 23 proper means of managing a collective action—the form and timing of notice, the timing of motions, the extent of…
- Dodge, No. 2:25-cv-00043 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 15, 2025). (Denial of preliminary certification may be without 10 || prejudice and may be revisited by the district court after further discovery.)
- Rittmann v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:16-cv-01554 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 2, 2024). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1102 (“credible 21 allegations” of a common policy “should suffice to make [employees] similarly situated”). 22 Defendants may renew their arguments at stage two, where there will have been additional 23 discovery…
- Jiang v. Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, Inc., No. 1:22-cv-11867, 2024 WL 4872395 (D. Mass. Nov. 22, 2024). (First, at or around the pleading stage, plaintiffs will typically move for preliminary certification . . . . The level of consideration is . . . commensurate with the stage of the proceedings.)
- Atkins v. VCE Theaters, LLC, No. 3:23-cv-01332 (D. Or. Nov. 14, 2024). Or. Jan. 9, 2024) (rejecting the defendant’s objection to sending notice to potential collective members whose claims were time-barred and finding “[t]he Court is satisfied that the proper approach [is] to be as inclusive of potential plai…
- Greene v. Cascadia Healthcare, LLC, No. 1:23-cv-00253 (D. Idaho Oct. 15, 2024). (Preliminary certification, as noted, refers to the dissemination of notice to putative collective members, conditioned on a preliminary determination that the collective as defined in the complaint satisfies the ‘simil…)
- Robinson v. Maricopa Cnty. Special Health Care Dist., 696 F. Supp. 3d 769 (D. Ariz. 2023).published (At this early stage of the 19 litigation, the district court’s analysis is typically focused on a review of the pleadings but 20 may sometimes be supplemented by declarations or limited other evidence. The level of 21…)
- Perry v. Hardeman Cnty. Goverment, No. 1:19-cv-01106 (W.D. Tenn. Sept. 20, 2023). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1117 (“Decertification, in the sense the term is typically used, comes after relevant discovery is complete, and in that respect resembles a motion for summary judgment.”) (collecting cases).
- Waters v. Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc., 23 F.4th 84 (1st Cir. 2022).published The FLSA's "similarly situated" limitation for collective actions displaces Rule 20 and limits the range of individuals who may be added as opt-in plaintiffs by requiring that they be "similarly situated." See, e.g., Cruz v. Bristol-Myers…
- Valte v. United States, No. 16-1485 (Fed. Cl. Aug. 26, 2021).published Myers, 624 F.3d at 554-55; Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 691 F.3d 527, 536 (3d Cir. 2012); White v. Baptist Mem’l Health Care Corp., 699 F.3d 869, 877 (6th Cir. 2012); Morgan, 551 F.3d at 1260 ; see also Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s…
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- Samantha Shafer v. Red Tie, LLC, No. 2:20-cv-05726 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 25, 2021). (The employer 19 can move [later] for ‘decertification’ of the collective action for failure to satisfy the 20 ‘similarly situated’ requirement in light of the evidence produced to that point.)
- Cuevas v. ConAm Mgmt. Corp., No. 3:18-cv-01189, 2019 WL 5320544 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 21, 2019). (�lenient’” standard . . . sometimes articulated as requiring 21 ‘substantial allegations,’ sometimes as turning on a ‘reasonable basis,’ but in any event 22 loosely akin to a plausibility standard, commensurate with th…)
- Hayslip v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, No. 1:22-cv-00410 (D. Haw. Apr. 28, 2023).
- Hunter v. Legacy Health, No. 3:18-cv-02219, 2021 WL 24553 (D. Or. Jan. 4, 2021).
- Barker v. CDR Maguire Inc., No. 6:21-cv-01720 (D. Or. June 2, 2022).
- Barker v. CDR Maguire Inc., No. 6:21-cv-01720 (D. Or. July 25, 2022).
- Terry v. Hodges, No. 6:22-cv-01668 (D. Or. Jan. 9, 2024).
- Edmonds v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:19-cv-01613 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 9, 2020).
- Walters, No. 2:25-cv-00482 (D. Idaho June 12, 2026).
- Ruben, No. 4:25-cv-00228 (D. Ariz. June 9, 2026).
- Basham v. Tailored Living Choices, LLC, No. 4:23-cv-02678 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2024).
- Cadena v. Customer Connexx LLC, No. 2:18-cv-00233 (D. Nev. July 21, 2021).
- Carlson v. United Nat. Foods Inc, No. 3:20-cv-05476, 2021 WL 3616786 (W.D. Wash. Aug. 14, 2021).
- Dodds v. US Nat'l Pers. Care, LLC, No. 2:18-cv-01517 (D. Nev. Sept. 30, 2019).
- Leglise, No. 3:26-cv-00245 (D. Nev. Sept. 25, 2026).
- In re JPMorgan Chase & Co., 916 F.3d 494 (5th Cir. 2019).published
- Cooley v. Air Methods Corp., No. 2:19-cv-00850 (D. Ariz. Sept. 25, 2020).
- Vasquez v. Dan Keen Servs. Inc., No. 2:21-cv-00320 (D. Ariz. May 26, 2021).
- Enriquez v. G.D. Barri & Assocs. Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00611 (D. Ariz. Mar. 4, 2024).
- Borelli v. Black Diamond Aggregates, Inc., No. 2:14-cv-02093 (E.D. Cal. May 21, 2021).
- Borelli v. Black Diamond Aggregates, Inc., No. 2:14-cv-02093, 2021 WL 5139610 (E.D. Cal. Nov. 4, 2021).
- Borelli v. Black Diamond Aggregates, Inc., No. 2:14-cv-02093, 2022 WL 2079375 (E.D. Cal. June 9, 2022).
- Alcazar v. OEI Holdings, LLC, No. 2:19-cv-01209 (E.D. Cal. Aug. 15, 2022).
- Seto v. Cnty. of San Joaquin, No. 2:20-cv-01788 (E.D. Cal. Aug. 15, 2022).
- Hassanpoor v. Serv. King Paint & Body, LLC, No. 2:22-cv-00917 (E.D. Cal. Oct. 7, 2022).
- Alcazar v. OEI Holdings, LLC, No. 2:19-cv-01209, 2023 WL 2876833 (E.D. Cal. Apr. 10, 2023).
- Brown v. Tetra Tech, Inc., No. 2:20-cv-01133 (E.D. Cal. June 23, 2023).
- Schmidt v. Vision Serv. Plan, No. 2:20-cv-02400 (E.D. Cal. Aug. 30, 2023).
- Valenzuela v. Best-Line Shades, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-07293 (N.D. Cal. May 2, 2022).
- Harris v. Diamond Dolls of Nevada, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-00598 (D. Nev. Sept. 22, 2020).
- O'Bryant v. ABC Phones of North Carolina, Inc., No. 2:19-cv-02378, 2020 WL 4493157 (W.D. Tenn. Aug. 4, 2020).
- O'Bryant v. ABC Phones of North Carolina, Inc., No. 2:19-cv-02378 (W.D. Tenn. Dec. 22, 2020).
- Holifield v. NexusCw, Inc., No. 3:24-cv-00353 (S.D. Cal. Aug. 20, 2024).
- Kurtz v. RegionalCare Hosp. Partners Inc, No. 4:19-cv-05049 (E.D. Wash. Aug. 23, 2024).
- Kim v. US Bancorp, No. 2:20-cv-00032 (W.D. Wash. Aug. 18, 2021).
- Paunovic v. OBI Seafoods LLC, No. 2:21-cv-00884 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 28, 2022).
- Roberts v. Sidwell Air Freight Inc, No. 3:21-cv-05912 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 18, 2023).
- Sarte v. Henry Indus., Inc., No. 2:22-cv-01678 (E.D. Cal. Apr. 24, 2025).
- Slepian v. Pink Jeep Tours LLC, No. 3:23-cv-08105 (D. Ariz. June 11, 2025).
- Sarte v. Henry Indus., Inc., No. 2:22-cv-01678 (E.D. Cal. July 8, 2025).
- Shakoor-Delgado, No. 3:24-cv-01811 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 15, 2025).
- Dempsey, No. 3:24-cv-00269 (D. Nev. Dec. 10, 2025).
- Whitfield, No. 3:26-cv-01300 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 3, 2026).
- Droesch v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 3:20-cv-06751 (N.D. Cal. May 6, 2021).
- Valenzuela v. Best-Line Shades, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-07293 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 10, 2021).
At page 1117 Determining similarly situated plaintiffs for collective action40 citing cases“party plaintiffs are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their flsa claims.”
- Hallman, No. 8:24-cv-00222 (D. Neb. Nov. 7, 2025). (Party plaintiffs are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims.)
- Greist v. LendUS, LLC, No. 3:24-cv-02411 (N.D. Cal. June 6, 2025). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1101 (“‘The sole consequence’ of a successful 4 motion for preliminary certification is ‘the sending of court-approved written notice’ to workers 5 who may wish to join the litigation as individuals.”); see also Harri…
- Greene v. Cascadia Healthcare, LLC, No. 1:23-cv-00253 (D. Idaho Oct. 15, 2024). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1109 (“Preliminary certification, as noted, refers to the dissemination of notice to putative collective members, conditioned on a preliminary determination that the collective as defined in the complaint satisfie…
- Johnson v. PHP of NC, INC., No. 5:23-cv-00462 (E.D.N.C. May 21, 2024).(plaintiffs are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims.)
- Perry v. Hardeman Cnty. Goverment, No. 1:19-cv-01106 (W.D. Tenn. May 8, 2024). (Decertification, in the sense the term is typically used, comes after relevant discovery is complete, and in that respect resembles a motion for summary judgment.)
- Perry v. Hardeman Cnty. Goverment, No. 1:19-cv-01106 (W.D. Tenn. Sept. 20, 2023). (Decertification, in the sense the term is typically used, comes after relevant discovery is complete, and in that respect resembles a motion for summary judgment.)
- Hershman v. Full Spectrum Laser LLC, No. 2:21-cv-02245 (D. Nev. Feb. 27, 2023). (Party plaintiffs 9 are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of 10 law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims.)
- Roberts v. Sidwell Air Freight Inc, No. 3:21-cv-05912, 2022 WL 16949565 (W.D. Wash. Nov. 15, 2022). (Because preliminary certification is not challenged 10 in this case, we address only the standard the district court should apply to post-discovery 11 decertification.)
- Hanigan v. OpSec Sec., Inc., No. 1:22-cv-00064, 2022 WL 4465518 (D. Idaho Sept. 26, 2022). The Ninth Circuit uses a two-step approach to determine whether plaintiffs are “similarly situated.” Id. at 1110 (“[I]t is now the near-universal practice to evaluate the propriety of the collective mechanism—in particular, plaintiffs’’ sa…
- Mahoney v. CommonSpirit Health, No. 8:21-cv-00023 (D. Neb. Dec. 14, 2021).(Party plaintiffs are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims.)
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- Friedly v. Union Bank & Trust Co., No. 4:21-cv-03105 (D. Neb. Nov. 19, 2021).(Party plaintiffs are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims.)
- Valte v. United States, No. 16-1485 (Fed. Cl. Aug. 26, 2021).published Myers, 624 F.3d at 554-55; Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 691 F.3d 527, 536 (3d Cir. 2012); White v. Baptist Mem’l Health Care Corp., 699 F.3d 869, 877 (6th Cir. 2012); Morgan, 551 F.3d at 1260 ; see also Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s…
- Grove v. Meltech, No. 8:20-cv-00193 (D. Neb. Dec. 3, 2020).(Party plaintiffs are similarly situated, and may proceed in a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims.)
- McKinnon v. City of Merced, No. 1:18-cv-01124 (E.D. Cal. Aug. 19, 2020). (In effect, using the ad hoc test, with its focus on 10 differences rather than similarities among the party plaintiffs, improperly led the district court 11 into an approach that treats difference as disqualifying, rat…)
- Talavera v. Sun Maid Growers of California, No. 1:15-cv-00842 (E.D. Cal. May 6, 2020). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s a general rule, the two-step process, 23 culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has the 24 advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions,…
- Chetwood v. T-Mobile USA Inc, No. 2:19-cv-00458, 2020 WL 1689730 (W.D. Wash. Apr. 7, 2020). (Because preliminary certification is not challenged in this case, we 26 address only the standard the district court should apply to post-discovery decertification.)
- Hayslip v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, No. 1:22-cv-00410 (D. Haw. Apr. 28, 2023).
- Coyne v. Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep't, No. 2:22-cv-00475 (D. Nev. Aug. 15, 2023).
- Edmonds v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:19-cv-01613 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 9, 2020).
- Johnson v. Desert Fire LLC, No. 6:25-cv-00037 (D. Or. July 9, 2025).
- Walters, No. 2:25-cv-00482 (D. Idaho June 12, 2026).
- Richter, No. 9:22-cv-00047 (D. Mont. Mar. 9, 2026).
- Whitfield, No. 3:26-cv-01300 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 3, 2026).
- Scott v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., 954 F.3d 502 (2d Cir. 2020).published
- Aaron Senne v. Kansas City Royals Baseball, 934 F.3d 918 (9th Cir. 2019).published
- Levine v. Vitamin Cottage Nat. Food Markets, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-00261, 2023 WL 3648684 (D. Colo. May 25, 2023).
- Englert v. City of Merced, No. 1:18-cv-01239 (E.D. Cal. Apr. 24, 2020).
- Englert v. City of Merced, No. 1:18-cv-01239 (E.D. Cal. May 7, 2020).
- Beltran v. Olam Spices & Vegetables, Inc., No. 1:18-cv-01676, 2020 WL 2850211 (E.D. Cal. June 2, 2020).
- Weist v. City of Davis, No. 2:16-cv-01683 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2021).
- Smith v. Kaiser Found. Hospitals, No. 3:18-cv-00780 (S.D. Cal. June 15, 2021).
- Sonnier v. Recon Mgmt. Servs. Inc, No. 2:20-cv-00002 (W.D. La. Sept. 7, 2021).
- Vazquez-Aguilar v. Gasca, 477 F. Supp. 3d 418 (E.D.N.C. 2020).published
- Tom v. Hosp. Ventures LLC, No. 5:17-cv-00098, 2021 WL 2272386 (E.D.N.C. June 3, 2021).
- Firestone v. Cowboy Brazilian Steakhouse, LLC, No. 2:22-cv-04020 (D.S.C. Feb. 13, 2024).
- Heid v. CyraCom Int'l, Inc., No. 3:22-cv-01445, 2024 WL 4008650 (S.D. Cal. Aug. 30, 2024).
- Edwards v. City of Raleigh, No. 5:23-cv-00683 (E.D.N.C. Sept. 11, 2024).
- Oliveira v. Language Line Servs., Inc., 767 F. Supp. 3d 984 (N.D. Cal. 2025).published
- Randy Richter v. Autozoners, LLC, No. 9:22-cv-00047 (D. Mont. Apr. 9, 2026).
- Andrew Harrington v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., 142 F.4th 678 (9th Cir. 2025).published
At page 1105 Describing collective actions as mass actions under FLSA41 citing casesA collective action is more accurately described as a kind of mass action, in which aggrieved workers act as a collective of individual plaintiffs with individual cases — capitalizing on efficiencies of scale, but without necessarily permitting a specific, named representative to control the litig…
- Monica Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., 149 F.4th 901 (7th Cir. 2025).published (A collective action, on the other hand, is not a comparable form of representative action. Just the opposite: Congress added the FLSA’s opt-in requirement with the express purpose of ‘bann[ing]’ such actions under the…)
- Jiang v. Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, Inc., No. 1:22-cv-11867, 2024 WL 4872395 (D. Mass. Nov. 22, 2024). See Campbell v. City of Los Angeles, 903 F.3d 1090, 1109 (9th Cir. 2018) (“First, at or around the pleading stage, plaintiffs will typically move for preliminary certification . . . .
- Perry v. Hardeman Cnty. Goverment, No. 1:19-cv-01106 (W.D. Tenn. May 8, 2024). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1117 (“Decertification, in the sense the term is typically used, comes after relevant discovery is complete, and in that respect resembles a motion for summary judgment.”) (collecting cases).
- Perry v. Hardeman Cnty. Goverment, No. 1:19-cv-01106 (W.D. Tenn. Sept. 20, 2023). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1117 (“Decertification, in the sense the term is typically used, comes after relevant discovery is complete, and in that respect resembles a motion for summary judgment.”) (collecting cases).
- Chuchuca v. Fitzcon Constr. G.C. Inc., No. 1:20-cv-02178 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 16, 2023).(A collective action is more accurately described as a kind of mass action, in which aggrieved workers act as a collective of individual plaintiffs with individual cases.)
- Suazo v. Bluemercury, Inc., No. 3:22-cv-06307, 2023 WL 2959997 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 14, 2023). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1101 (“Preliminary certification in the FLSA context 26 does not produce a class with an independent legal status or join additional parties to the action.”) 27 (cleaned up).
- Christa Fischer v. Fed. Express Corp, 42 F.4th 366 (3d Cir. 2022).published ([B]ecause of the due process concerns inherent such a proceeding, the district court must initially approve the creation of a class and the appointment of an adequate representative.)
- Waters v. Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc., 23 F.4th 84 (1st Cir. 2022).published The FLSA's "similarly situated" limitation for collective actions displaces Rule 20 and limits the range of individuals who may be added as opt-in plaintiffs by requiring that they be "similarly situated." See, e.g., Cruz v. Bristol-Myers…
- McClurg v. Dallas Jones Enter. Inc, No. 4:20-cv-00201 (W.D. Ky. Dec. 3, 2021). (A collective action is more accurately described as a kind of mass action, in which aggrieved workers act as a collective of individual plaintiffs with individual cases—capitalizing on efficiencies of scale, but withou…)
- Valte v. United States, No. 16-1485 (Fed. Cl. Aug. 26, 2021).published Myers, 624 F.3d at 554-55; Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 691 F.3d 527, 536 (3d Cir. 2012); White v. Baptist Mem’l Health Care Corp., 699 F.3d 869, 877 (6th Cir. 2012); Morgan, 551 F.3d at 1260 ; see also Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s…
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- Samantha Shafer v. Red Tie, LLC, No. 2:20-cv-05726 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 25, 2021). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1109 (“The employer 19 can move [later] for ‘decertification’ of the collective action for failure to satisfy the 20 ‘similarly situated’ requirement in light of the evidence produced to that point.”). 21 Defendan…
- Camp v. Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc., No. 1:18-cv-00378 (D.N.H. Apr. 7, 2020).(A collective action is more accurately described as a kind of mass action, in which aggrieved workers act as a collective of individual plaintiffs with individual cases — capitalizing on efficiencies of scale, but with…)
- De Niro v. Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00695 (D. Nev. Nov. 20, 2024).
- Laura Canaday v. Anthem Companies, Inc., 9 F.4th 392 (6th Cir. 2021).published
- Smith v. United States, No. 19-1348 (Fed. Cl. Oct. 15, 2021).published
- Smith v. United States, No. 19-1348 (Fed. Cl. Dec. 2, 2022).published
- Mark Habelt v. Irhythm Tech., Inc., 83 F.4th 1162 (9th Cir. 2023).published
- Houck v. Maricopa, Cnty. of, No. 2:23-cv-00068 (D. Ariz. Oct. 25, 2023).
- Osegueda v. N. California Inalliance, No. 2:18-cv-00835, 2020 WL 4194055 (E.D. Cal. July 21, 2020).
- Smith v. Guidant Global, Inc., No. 2:19-cv-12318 (E.D. Mich. Nov. 19, 2020).
- Speight v. Labor Source, LLC, No. 4:21-cv-00112 (E.D.N.C. Apr. 19, 2022).
- Payton-fernandez v. Burlington Stores, Inc., 671 F. Supp. 3d 512 (D.N.J. 2023).published
- Ivanovs v. Bayada Home Health Care, Inc., 674 F. Supp. 3d 115 (D.N.J. 2023).published
- Gonzalez v. Diamond Resorts Int'l Mktg., Inc., No. 2:18-cv-00979, 2019 WL 3430770 (D. Nev. July 29, 2019).
- Zambrano v. Strategic Delivery Solutions, LLC, No. 1:15-cv-08410 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 28, 2021).
- Bethel v. Bluemercury, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-02743, 2022 WL 3594575 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 22, 2022).
- Onate v. AHRC Health Care, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-08292 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 9, 2023).
- Kimble v. Opteon Appraisal, Inc., 712 F. Supp. 3d 379 (W.D.N.Y. 2024).published
- Perry v. Hardeman Cnty. Goverment, No. 1:19-cv-01106 (W.D. Tenn. June 12, 2024).
- Transou v. Toyota Boshoku Tennessee, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-01062 (W.D. Tenn. Sept. 25, 2023).
- Counts v. Wayfair LLC, No. 1:23-cv-11706 (D. Mass. Aug. 5, 2024).
- Tripp v. Perdue Foods LLC, No. 1:24-cv-00987 (D. Md. Aug. 22, 2024).
- Adams v. Absolute Consulting, Inc., No. 6:20-cv-01099 (W.D. Tex. Apr. 27, 2023).
- Munoz v. Thomas L. Cardella & Assocs., Inc., No. 2:21-cv-00558 (D.N.M. Jan. 22, 2025).
- Herod v. DMS Solutions Inc, No. 4:23-cv-04465 (S.D. Tex. July 15, 2025).
- David Camp v. Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc., 2020 DNH 056 (D.N.H. 2020).published
- Vanorden, No. 2:24-cv-01060 (D. Ariz. Oct. 21, 2025).
- Harpel, No. 3:24-cv-01370 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 11, 2026).
- Oliverio-Still, No. 3:24-cv-00870 (S.D. Cal. June 1, 2026).
- Gawlik, No. 1:25-cv-10615 (D. Mass. Sept. 24, 2026).
At page 1114 Determining proper legal standard for collective action certification36 citing cases[P]arty plaintiffs must be alike with regard to some material aspect of their litigation.
- Ardon v. United States, No. 22-562 (Fed. Cl. Nov. 12, 2024).published Cl. at 173 (holding that a common 10 “policy” can be shown through “some common employer practice” (quoting 7 Newberg on Class Actions § 23:39 (5th ed.))); id. (noting that “[s]ome courts do not require a common policy at all, as long as t…
- Isaac Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc., 77 F.4th 746 (D.C. Cir. 2023).published([P]arty plaintiffs must be alike with regard to some material aspect of their litigation.)
- Haro v. Walmart Inc., No. 1:21-cv-00239 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 27, 2023). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s a general rule, the two- 27 step process, culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has 28 the advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions,…
- Hanigan v. OpSec Sec., Inc., No. 1:22-cv-00064, 2022 WL 4465518 (D. Idaho Sept. 26, 2022). The Ninth Circuit uses a two-step approach to determine whether plaintiffs are “similarly situated.” Id. at 1110 (“[I]t is now the near-universal practice to evaluate the propriety of the collective mechanism—in particular, plaintiffs’’ sa…
- Talavera v. Sun Maid Growers of California, No. 1:15-cv-00842 (E.D. Cal. May 6, 2020). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s a general rule, the two-step process, 23 culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has the 24 advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions,…
- Cuevas v. ConAm Mgmt. Corp., No. 3:18-cv-01189, 2019 WL 5320544 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 21, 2019). See 20 Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1109 (“’lenient’” standard . . . sometimes articulated as requiring 21 ‘substantial allegations,’ sometimes as turning on a ‘reasonable basis,’ but in any event 22 loosely akin to a plausibility standard, comme…
- Coyne v. Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep't, No. 2:22-cv-00475 (D. Nev. Aug. 15, 2023).
- Edmonds v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:19-cv-01613 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 9, 2020).
- De Niro v. Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00695 (D. Nev. Nov. 20, 2024).
- Harris v. Diamond Dolls of Nevada, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-00598 (D. Nev. Sept. 22, 2020).
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- Paunovic v. OBI Seafoods LLC, No. 2:21-cv-00884 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 28, 2022).
- Shakoor-Delgado, No. 3:24-cv-01811 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 15, 2025).
- Scott v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., 954 F.3d 502 (2d Cir. 2020).published
- Aaron Senne v. Kansas City Royals Baseball, 934 F.3d 918 (9th Cir. 2019).published
- Havey v. Countertop Factory Sw. LLC, No. 4:22-cv-00242 (D. Ariz. Dec. 8, 2022).
- Ward v. Sutter Valley Hospitals, No. 2:19-cv-00581 (E.D. Cal. July 18, 2022).
- Herrera v. EOS IT Mgmt. Solutions, Inc., No. 5:20-cv-01093 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 14, 2020).
- Massey v. Star Nursing, Inc., No. 5:21-cv-01482 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 24, 2022).
- Levine v. Vitamin Cottage Nat. Food Markets, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-00261, 2023 WL 3648684 (D. Colo. May 25, 2023).
- Roy v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., No. 3:17-cv-30116, 2024 WL 1346999 (D. Mass. Mar. 29, 2024).
- Pino v. Harris Water Main & Sewer Contractors, Inc., No. 1:17-cv-05910 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 23, 2020).
- Han v. Shang Noodle House, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-02266, 2021 WL 3774186 (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 24, 2021).
- Jiao v. Shang Shang Qian Inc, No. 1:18-cv-05624 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 24, 2021).
- Xia v. New Yung Wah Carrier LLC, No. 1:21-cv-04475 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 9, 2023).
- Dieffenbauch v. Rhinehart R.R. Constr., No. 8:17-cv-01180 (N.D.N.Y. Feb. 3, 2021).
- Rusis v. Int'l Bus. Machines Corp., No. 1:18-cv-08434 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 10, 2020).
- Hickmon v. Fun & Fit LLC, No. 1:20-cv-10270, 2021 WL 3578296 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 13, 2021).
- Adam v. Bloomberg L.P., No. 1:21-cv-04775 (S.D.N.Y. June 5, 2023).
- Andrade-Barteldes v. ASA Coll., Inc., No. 1:23-cv-00495 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 4, 2023).
- Brinkmann v. ABM Onsite Servs. - West, Inc., No. 3:17-cv-00275 (D. Or. Sept. 2, 2021).
- Wood v. Mike Bloomberg 2020, Inc., 746 F. Supp. 3d 185 (S.D.N.Y. 2024).published
- Rodney v. Casella Waste Sys., Inc., No. 2:21-cv-00196 (D. Vt. Jan. 19, 2023).
- Edmonds v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:19-cv-01613, 2020 WL 1875533 (W.D. Wash. Apr. 15, 2020).
- Ohring v. UniSea Inc, No. 2:21-cv-00359 (W.D. Wash. Nov. 9, 2023).
- Ohring v. UniSea Inc, No. 2:21-cv-00359 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 31, 2024).
- Batten v. Citi Gen. Hardware, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-02039 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 29, 2025).
At page 1110 Evaluating the two-step process for collective action notice33 citing cases[A]s a general rule, the two-step process, culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has the advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions, then eliminating those whose promise is not borne out by the record.
- Wieben, No. 3:24-cv-00575 (D. Nev. Aug. 14, 2026). (In the absence of any statutory directive, the 23 proper means of managing a collective action—the form and timing of notice, the timing of motions, the extent of discovery before decertification is addressed—is largel…)
- Atkins v. VCE Theaters, LLC, No. 3:23-cv-01332 (D. Or. Nov. 14, 2024). ([T]he two-step process . . . has the advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions, then eliminating those whose promise is not borne out by the record.)
- Haro v. Walmart Inc., No. 1:21-cv-00239 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 27, 2023). ([A]s a general rule, the two- 27 step process, culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has 28 the advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions, then el…)
- Hanigan v. OpSec Sec., Inc., No. 1:22-cv-00064, 2022 WL 4465518 (D. Idaho Sept. 26, 2022). ([I]t is now the near-universal practice to evaluate the propriety of the collective mechanism—in particular, plaintiffs’’ satisfaction of the ‘similarly situated’ requirement—by way of a two-step ‘certification’ proces…)
- Valte v. United States, No. 16-1485 (Fed. Cl. Aug. 26, 2021).published ([A]s a general rule, the two-step process, culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has the advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions, then eliminati…)
- Droesch v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 3:20-cv-06751 (N.D. Cal. July 6, 2021).([T]he 18 proper means of managing a collective action ... is largely a question of ‘case management,’ and 19 thus a subject of substantial judicial discretion.)
- Talavera v. Sun Maid Growers of California, No. 1:15-cv-00842 (E.D. Cal. May 6, 2020). ([A]s a general rule, the two-step process, 23 culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has the 24 advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions, then eli…)
- Tay v. New York & Presbyterian Hosp., No. 7:22-cv-08379, 2024 WL 4286226 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 24, 2024).
- Gutierrez v. E&E Foods, No. 2:21-cv-00682 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 17, 2021).
- Basham v. Tailored Living Choices, LLC, No. 4:23-cv-02678 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2024).
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- Richter, No. 9:22-cv-00047 (D. Mont. Mar. 9, 2026).
- Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc., No. 2017-1371, 2021 WL 3472381 (D.D.C. Aug. 6, 2021).published
- Smith v. United States, No. 19-1348 (Fed. Cl. Oct. 15, 2021).published
- Paunovic v. OBI Seafoods LLC, No. 2:21-cv-00884 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 28, 2022).
- Kia Davidson v. O'Reilly Auto Enter., LLC, 968 F.3d 955 (9th Cir. 2020).published
- Brooke Clark v. A&L Homecare &Training Ctr., 68 F.4th 1003 (6th Cir. 2023).published
- David Deluca v. Farmers Ins. Exch., No. 3:17-cv-00034 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 11, 2019).
- Howell v. Advantage RN LLC, 401 F. Supp. 3d 1078 (S.D. Cal. 2019).published
- Holder v. A&L Home Care & Training Ctr., LLC, 552 F. Supp. 3d 731 (S.D. Ohio 2021).published
- Knight v. Dakota 2000 Inc., No. 3:21-cv-03025 (D.S.D. Oct. 28, 2022).
- Martinez v. First Class Interiors of Naples, LLC, No. 3:18-cv-00583 (M.D. Tenn. June 18, 2020).
- Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders, Inc., 113 F.4th 718 (7th Cir. 2024).published
- Thomas v. Maximus, Inc., No. 3:21-cv-00498 (E.D. Va. May 10, 2022).
- Bond v. Fluke Corp., No. 2:22-cv-01241 (W.D. Wash. May 19, 2023).
- Laverenz v. Pioneer Metal Finishing LLC, 746 F. Supp. 3d 602 (E.D. Wis. 2024).published
- Rittmann v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:16-cv-01554 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 27, 2025).
- Bolos, No. 1:23-cv-00104 (D. Haw. Dec. 12, 2025).
- Bradley Smith v. Elly’s Phoenix Inc., No. 2:24-cv-02405 (D. Ariz. Mar. 11, 2026).
- Andrew Harrington v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., 142 F.4th 678 (9th Cir. 2025).published
- Droesch v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 3:20-cv-06751 (N.D. Cal. May 6, 2021).
- Valenzuela v. Best-Line Shades, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-07293 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 10, 2021).
At page 1101 Distinguishing class and collective action requirements24 citing casesCollective actions and class actions are creatures of distinct texts—collective actions 3 of section 216(b), and class actions of Rule 23—that impose distinct requirements.
- Greist v. LendUS, LLC, No. 3:24-cv-02411 (N.D. Cal. June 6, 2025). (‘The sole consequence’ of a successful 4 motion for preliminary certification is ‘the sending of court-approved written notice’ to workers 5 who may wish to join the litigation as individuals.)
- Zeman v. Twitter, Inc., 747 F. Supp. 3d 1275 (N.D. Cal. 2024).published Heath, F. Supp. 3d at 25 1164; 29 U.S.C. § 216 (b); Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1100 (“Given . . . gaps [in the FLSA], much of 26 collective action practice is a product of interstitial judicial lawmaking or ad hoc district court 27 1 discretion…
- Scott v. Cintas Corp., No. 3:23-cv-05764 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 2, 2024). (Collective actions and class actions are creatures of distinct texts— 9 collective actions of section 216(b), and class actions of Rule 23—that impose distinct 10 requirements.)
- Harris v. Diamond Dolls of Nevada, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-00598 (D. Nev. Dec. 11, 2023). (Collective actions and class actions are creatures of distinct texts— 15 collective actions of section 216(b), and class actions of Rule 23—that impose distinct 16 requirements.)
- Suazo v. Bluemercury, Inc., No. 3:22-cv-06307, 2023 WL 2959997 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 14, 2023). (Preliminary certification in the FLSA context 26 does not produce a class with an independent legal status or join additional parties to the action.)
- Roberts v. Sidwell Air Freight Inc, No. 3:21-cv-05912, 2022 WL 16949565 (W.D. Wash. Nov. 15, 2022). Id. at 1117 (“Because preliminary certification is not challenged 10 in this case, we address only the standard the district court should apply to post-discovery 11 decertification.”).
- Mondrian v. Trius Trucking, Inc., No. 1:19-cv-00884, 2022 WL 2306963 (E.D. Cal. Mar. 11, 2022).(Collective actions and class actions are creatures of distinct texts—collective actions 3 of section 216(b), and class actions of Rule 23—that impose distinct requirements.)
- Chavez v. Stellar Mgmt. Grp. VII, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-01353, 2020 WL 4505482 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 5, 2020). See 16 Campbell v. City of Los Angeles, 903 F.3d 1090, 1100 (9th Cir. 2018) (“[M]uch of collective 17 action practice is a product of interstitial judicial lawmaking or ad hoc district court discretion.”). 18 The statute, in relevant part,…
- Thompson v. Applied Servs. Augmentation Partners, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-00127 (W.D.N.C. Oct. 31, 2019).
- Coyne v. Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep't, No. 2:22-cv-00475 (D. Nev. Aug. 15, 2023).
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- Johnson v. Desert Fire LLC, No. 6:25-cv-00037 (D. Or. July 9, 2025).
- Trina Ray v. Cnty. of Los Angeles, 935 F.3d 703 (9th Cir. 2019).published
- Lauren Millstein v. Cnty. of Los Angeles, No. 2:21-cv-02623 (C.D. Cal. July 3, 2023).
- Gillespie v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., No. 2:21-cv-00940 (D. Ariz. Jan. 21, 2022).
- De Leon v. Ricoh USA, Inc., No. 3:18-cv-03725 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 25, 2019).
- Dixon v. Cushman & Wakefield W., Inc., No. 3:18-cv-05813, 2021 WL 3861465 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 30, 2021).
- Tawfik v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., No. 3:20-cv-02946 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 30, 2021).
- Basham v. Tailored Living Choices, LLC, No. 4:23-cv-02678 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2024).
- Delara v. Diamond Resorts Int'l Mktg., Inc., No. 2:19-cv-00022, 2020 WL 2085957 (D. Nev. Apr. 30, 2020).
- Cadena v. Customer Connexx LLC, No. 2:18-cv-00233 (D. Nev. July 21, 2021).
- Goode v. Nuance Commc'ns, Inc., No. 4:17-cv-00472 (N.D. Okla. Feb. 5, 2020).
- Ferrell v. SemGroup Corp., No. 4:19-cv-00610 (N.D. Okla. Nov. 9, 2020).
- Rodriguez v. BELFOR USA Grp., Inc., No. 5:22-cv-02071 (N.D. Cal. May 21, 2025).
- Murgas v. Walashek Indus. & Marine, Inc., No. 3:25-cv-00263 (S.D. Cal. May 28, 2025).
At page 1112 Analyzing when collective action decertification is permissible20 citing casesThe statutory requirements of a collective action are independent of, and unrelated to, the requirements for class action under Rule 23.
- Monica Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., 149 F.4th 901 (7th Cir. 2025).published E.g., Vanegas, 113 F.4th at 723 (collective actions are just amalgamations of parties, requiring personal jurisdiction over each plaintiff); Canaday v. Anthem Cos., 9 F.4th 392 , 402 (6th Cir. 2021) (“A Rule 23 class action is representativ…
- Rittmann v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:16-cv-01554 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 2, 2024). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1102 (“credible 21 allegations” of a common policy “should suffice to make [employees] similarly situated”). 22 Defendants may renew their arguments at stage two, where there will have been additional 23 discovery…
- Rosales v. Rock Spring Contracting LLC, No. 3:23-cv-00407 (E.D. Va. Apr. 2, 2024). (The statutory requirements of a collective action are independent of, and unrelated to, the requirements for class action under Rule 23.)
- Christa Fischer v. Fed. Express Corp, 42 F.4th 366 (3d Cir. 2022).published See Campbell v. City of L.A., 903 F.3d 1090, 1105 (9th Cir. 2018) ( “[B]ecause of the due process concerns inherent such a proceeding, the district court must initially approve the creation of a class and the appointment of an adequate rep…
- Cunningham v. Roundy's Illinois, LLC, No. 1:21-cv-05368, 2022 WL 2463048 (N.D. Ill. July 6, 2022).(Whereas Rule[] 20 . . . allow[s] district courts discretion in granting joinder or consolidation . . . the FLSA, which declares a right to proceed collectively on satisfaction of certain conditions, does not.)
- Thompson v. Applied Servs. Augmentation Partners, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-00127 (W.D.N.C. Oct. 31, 2019).
- Johnson v. Desert Fire LLC, No. 6:25-cv-00037 (D. Or. July 9, 2025).
- Oliverio-Still, No. 3:24-cv-00870 (S.D. Cal. June 1, 2026).
- Phillip Haskett v. Uber Tech., Inc., No. 19-1116 (4th Cir. July 16, 2019).unpublished
- Quintana v. HealthPlanOne LLC, No. 2:18-cv-02169, 2019 WL 3342339 (D. Ariz. July 25, 2019).
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- Camilo v. Ozuna, No. 5:18-cv-02842, 2020 WL 1557423 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 1, 2020).
- Savinova v. Nova Home Care, LLC, No. 3:20-cv-01612 (D. Conn. Mar. 29, 2024).
- Curtis v. Genesis Eng'g Solutions, Inc., No. 8:21-cv-00722 (D. Md. Dec. 10, 2021).
- Bobb v. FinePoints Private Duty Healthcare, LLC, No. 1:23-cv-03129 (D. Md. Mar. 27, 2024).
- Foster v. City of New York, No. 1:14-cv-04142, 2021 WL 1191810 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 30, 2021).
- Tueros v. Urban Health Plan, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-04525 (S.D.N.Y. July 14, 2022).
- Diaz v. New York Paving Inc., No. 1:18-cv-04910 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2022).
- Cashatt v. Ford Motor Co., No. 3:19-cv-05886 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 27, 2023).
- Son v. HAND Hosp. LLC, 768 F. Supp. 3d 526 (S.D.N.Y. 2025).published
At page 1104 Defining party status for opt-in collective action plaintiffs17 citing casesThe FLSA leaves no doubt that 'every plaintiff who opts in to a collective action has party status.'" (quoting Halle v. W. Penn Allegheny Health Sys. Inc., 842 F.3d 215, 225 (3d Cir. 2016))
- Harris v. Diamond Dolls of Nevada, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-00598 (D. Nev. Dec. 11, 2023). Thus, collective actions, like class actions, allow plaintiffs to “capitaliz[e] 9 on efficiencies of scale,” but, unlike class actions, collective actions do so “without necessarily 10 permitting a specific, named representative to control…
- Christa Fischer v. Fed. Express Corp, 42 F.4th 366 (3d Cir. 2022).published See Campbell v. City of L.A., 903 F.3d 1090, 1105 (9th Cir. 2018) ( “[B]ecause of the due process concerns inherent such a proceeding, the district court must initially approve the creation of a class and the appointment of an adequate rep…
- Waters v. Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc., 23 F.4th 84 (1st Cir. 2022).published (The natural parallel is to plaintiffs . . . later added under the ordinary rules of party joinder.)
- McNutt v. Swift Transp. Co of Arizona, LLC, No. 3:18-cv-05668, 2020 WL 3819239 (W.D. Wash. July 7, 2020). Standard for Conditional Certification 12 In Campbell v. City of L.A., 903 F.3d 1090, 1100 (9th Cir. 2018) (“Campbell”), the 13 Ninth Circuit provided an extensive discussion of collective actions.
- Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc., No. 2017-1371, 2021 WL 3472381 (D.D.C. Aug. 6, 2021).published
- Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc., No. 2017-1371 (D.D.C. Nov. 22, 2021).published
- Williams v. Whitefeather Holdings LLC, No. 4:19-cv-00482 (D. Ariz. Oct. 30, 2020).
- Bufford v. VXI Global Solutions LLC, No. 4:20-cv-00253, 2021 WL 229240 (D. Ariz. Jan. 22, 2021).
- Gillespie v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., No. 2:21-cv-00940 (D. Ariz. Jan. 30, 2024).
- Smith v. Kaiser Found. Hospitals, No. 3:18-cv-00780 (S.D. Cal. Nov. 7, 2019).
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- Davis v. TTEC Healthcare Solutions, Inc., No. 1:18-cv-03098 (D. Colo. Sept. 6, 2019).
- Norsoph v. Riverside Resort & Casino, Inc., No. 2:13-cv-00580 (D. Nev. May 21, 2020).
- Peters v. Guaranteed Rate, Inc., No. 3:23-cv-05602 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 19, 2024).
- Roig v. Alder Holdings LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00721 (D. Utah Apr. 5, 2024).
- De Niro v. Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00695 (D. Nev. Nov. 20, 2024).
- Silloway v. City & Cnty. of San Francisco, No. 3:20-cv-07400 (N.D. Cal. May 13, 2025).
- Goston v. Froedtert Thedacare Health Inc, No. 2:24-cv-01482 (E.D. Wis. June 23, 2025).
At page 1108 Analyzing collective action standards and statutory interpretation15 citing casesconstruing 29 U.S.C. § 9 216(b)
- Hallman, No. 8:24-cv-00222 (D. Neb. Nov. 7, 2025). “Plaintiffs may be similarly situated when ‘they suffer from a single, FLSA-violating policy, and when proof of that policy or of conduct in conformity with that policy proves a violation as to all the plaintiffs.’” Bouaphakeo v. Tyson Foo…
- Waters v. Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc., 23 F.4th 84 (1st Cir. 2022).published The FLSA's "similarly situated" limitation for collective actions displaces Rule 20 and limits the range of individuals who may be added as opt-in plaintiffs by requiring that they be "similarly situated." See, e.g., Cruz v. Bristol-Myers…
- Basham v. Tailored Living Choices, LLC, No. 4:23-cv-02678 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2024).
- Payton-fernandez v. Burlington Stores, Inc., 671 F. Supp. 3d 512 (D.N.J. 2023).published
- Swales v. KLLM Transp. Servs., 985 F.3d 430 (5th Cir. 2021).published
- Askar v. Health Providers Choice, Inc., No. 5:19-cv-06125, 2021 WL 4846955 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 18, 2021).
- Staley v. Umar Servs., Inc., 630 F. Supp. 3d 707 (M.D.N.C. 2022).published
- Barber v. Bauer Hockey, LLC, No. 1:21-cv-00742 (D.N.H. Oct. 18, 2022).
- Dodds v. US Nat'l Pers. Care, LLC, No. 2:18-cv-01517 (D. Nev. Sept. 30, 2019).
- Lescinsky v. Clark Cnty. Sch. Dist., No. 2:20-cv-00290 (D. Nev. Dec. 17, 2020).
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- Lescinsky v. Clark Cnty. Sch. Dist., 539 F. Supp. 3d 1121 (D. Nev. 2021).published
- Ohring v. UniSea Inc, No. 2:21-cv-00359 (W.D. Wash. June 14, 2023).
- Kwoka v. Enter. Rent-A-Car Co. of Boston, 141 F.4th 10 (1st Cir. 2025).published
- Brooks Barber v. Bauer Hockey, LLC, 2022 DNH 129 (D.N.H. 2020).published
- Leglise, No. 3:26-cv-00245 (D. Nev. Sept. 25, 2026).
At page 1102 Determining similarity for collective action under FLSA10 citing casescredible 21 allegations” of a common policy “should suffice to make [employees] similarly situated
- Morris v. AscendTek LLC, No. 2:24-cv-00565 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 7, 2025). ([C]redible allegations” of a common policy “should suffice to make 12 [employees] similarly situated)
- Rittmann v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:16-cv-01554 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 2, 2024). (credible 21 allegations” of a common policy “should suffice to make [employees] similarly situated)
- Goode v. Nuance Commc'ns, Inc., No. 4:17-cv-00472 (N.D. Okla. Feb. 5, 2020).
- Coe v. Hirsch, No. 2:21-cv-00478, 2021 WL 5634798 (D. Ariz. Dec. 1, 2021).
- Mumphrey v. Good Neighbor Cmty. Servs. LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00923 (D. Ariz. Sept. 29, 2023).
- Ludlow v. Flowers Foods, Inc., No. 3:18-cv-01190-JO-JLB (S.D. Cal. Mar. 15, 2023).
- Zhou v. Chai, No. 3:21-cv-06067 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 15, 2024).
- Carlson v. United Nat. Foods Inc, No. 3:20-cv-05476, 2021 WL 3616786 (W.D. Wash. Aug. 14, 2021).
- Richter, No. 9:22-cv-00047 (D. Mont. Mar. 9, 2026).
- Andrew Harrington v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., 142 F.4th 678 (9th Cir. 2025).published
At page 1111 Analyzing commonality in collective action claims6 citing casesholding that § 216(b) analogies to Rule 23 "lack[] support in either the FLSA or the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Haro v. Walmart Inc., No. 1:21-cv-00239 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 27, 2023). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s a general rule, the two- 27 step process, culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has 28 the advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions,…
- Valte v. United States, No. 16-1485 (Fed. Cl. Aug. 26, 2021).published Myers, 624 F.3d at 554-55; Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 691 F.3d 527, 536 (3d Cir. 2012); White v. Baptist Mem’l Health Care Corp., 699 F.3d 869, 877 (6th Cir. 2012); Morgan, 551 F.3d at 1260 ; see also Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s…
- Swales v. KLLM Transp. Servs., 985 F.3d 430 (5th Cir. 2021).published
- Paunovic v. OBI Seafoods LLC, No. 2:21-cv-00884 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 28, 2022).
- Scott v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., 954 F.3d 502 (2d Cir. 2020).published
- Williams v. BLH Acquisitions Co., No. 1:21-cv-04043 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 20, 2024).
At page 1119 Defining the scope of collective action litigation in district court6 citing casesinvolving an allegedly unwritten, Department- wide policy
- Greene v. Cascadia Healthcare, LLC, No. 1:23-cv-00253 (D. Idaho Oct. 15, 2024). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1109 (“Preliminary certification, as noted, refers to the dissemination of notice to putative collective members, conditioned on a preliminary determination that the collective as defined in the complaint satisfie…
- Talavera v. Sun Maid Growers of California, No. 1:15-cv-00842 (E.D. Cal. May 6, 2020). Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1110 (“[A]s a general rule, the two-step process, 23 culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has the 24 advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions,…
- Hayslip v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, No. 1:22-cv-00410 (D. Haw. Apr. 28, 2023).
- Peck, No. 4:21-cv-00834 (E.D. Mo. Apr. 21, 2026).
- Droesch v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 3:20-cv-06751 (N.D. Cal. May 6, 2021).
- Valenzuela v. Best-Line Shades, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-07293 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 10, 2021).
At page 1113 Distinguishing collective action from class action under flsa4 citing casesstating that the lack of any mention of a “class proceeding” in § 216(b) indicates an affirmative congressional choice to distinguish an FLSA collective action from a Rule 23 class action
- Christa Fischer v. Fed. Express Corp, 42 F.4th 366 (3d Cir. 2022).published See Campbell v. City of L.A., 903 F.3d 1090, 1105 (9th Cir. 2018) ( “[B]ecause of the due process concerns inherent such a proceeding, the district court must initially approve the creation of a class and the appointment of an adequate rep…
- Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc., No. 2017-1371, 2021 WL 3472381 (D.D.C. Aug. 6, 2021).published
- David Deluca v. Farmers Ins. Exch., No. 3:17-cv-00034 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 11, 2019).
- Buffington v. Ovintiv USA Inc., No. 1:20-cv-02477 (D. Colo. Aug. 23, 2021).
At page 1116 Determining commonality for collective action certification4 citing casesA systemic policy is no less common across the collective if those subject to it are affected at different times, at different places, in different ways, or to different degrees.
- Ardon v. United States, No. 22-562 (Fed. Cl. Nov. 12, 2024).published (A systemic policy is no less common across the collective if those subject to it are affected at different times, at different places, in different ways, or to different degrees.)
- Anderson v. Team Prior Inc, No. 2:19-cv-00452 (D. Me. Oct. 28, 2022).(A systemic policy is no less common across the collective if those subject to it are affected at different times, at different places, in different ways, or to different degrees.)
- Gomez v. Global Precision Sys., LLC, 636 F. Supp. 3d 746 (W.D. Tex. 2022).published([T]he theoretical alternative to collective litigation is the possible proliferation of individual actions . . . litigated seriatim.)
- O'Leary v. Humana Ins. Co., No. 1:17-cv-01774 (E.D. Wis. Nov. 30, 2020).(Nor are individualized damages calculations inherently inconsistent with a collective action. . . . Individual damages amounts cannot defeat collective treatment under the more forgiving standard of section 216(b) eith…)
At page 1118 Burden of proof at decertification and summary judgment3 citing casesapplying summary judgment standard to decertification
- Robinson v. Maricopa Cnty. Special Health Care Dist., 696 F. Supp. 3d 769 (D. Ariz. 2023).published Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1109 (“At this early stage of the 19 litigation, the district court’s analysis is typically focused on a review of the pleadings but 20 may sometimes be supplemented by declarations or limited other evidence.
- Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc., No. 2017-1371, 2021 WL 3472381 (D.D.C. Aug. 6, 2021).published
- Meadows v. NCR Corp., No. 1:16-cv-06221 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 4, 2020).
At page 1120 Identifying plaintiffs' similarity for collective action viability3 citing casesThat the policy is Department-wide is essential to the viability of the 20 collective action, as it is the sole justification advanced for a Department-wide collective action.
- Silloway, No. 3:20-cv-07400 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 17, 2025). (That the policy is Department-wide is essential to the viability of the 20 collective action, as it is the sole justification advanced for a Department-wide collective action.)
- Rittmann v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:16-cv-01554 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 2, 2024). See Campbell, 903 F.3d at 1102 (“credible 21 allegations” of a common policy “should suffice to make [employees] similarly situated”). 22 Defendants may renew their arguments at stage two, where there will have been additional 23 discovery…
- Harris v. Med. Transp. Mgmt., Inc., No. 2017-1371, 2021 WL 3472381 (D.D.C. Aug. 6, 2021).published
v.
City of Los Angeles
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
DANIEL CAMPBELL; et al, * No. 15-56990 Plaintiffs-Appellants, D.C. No. v. 2:04-cv-08592- AG-AJW CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant-Appellee.
CESAR MATA, No. 16-55002 Plaintiff, D.C. No. and 2:07-cv-06782- AG-AJW RICHARD D. ALBA; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, OPINION v.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES,
Defendant-Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
Andrew J. Guilford, District Judge, Presiding
*
Due to the number of parties in these appeals, the individual parties are listed in the attached Appendix. Argued and Submitted November 8, 2017 Pasadena, California
Filed September 13, 2018
Before: Richard Linn, ** Marsha S. Berzon,
and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Berzon
SUMMARY ***
Labor Law
The panel affirmed the district court’s decertification of
two related collective actions brought under the Fair Labor
Standards Act by officers of the Los Angeles Police
Department, alleging a pervasive, unwritten policy
discouraging the reporting of overtime.
The district court granted the City’s motion for
decertification and dismissed the officers without prejudice
to refiling their FLSA claims individually. The original
plaintiffs in the two decertified actions then reached
settlements with the City on their own claims, and the district court entered final judgment. Although no longer plaintiffs at that point, the officers filed timely appeals from final
**
The Honorable Richard Linn, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation. *** This summary constitutes no part of the opinion of the court. It has been prepared by court staff for the convenience of the reader. judgment, challenging their decertification and dismissal. Agreeing with the Eleventh Circuit, and disagreeing with the Third Circuit, the panel held that the officers had standing to appeal because opt-in plaintiffs are parties to the collective action, and an order of decertification and dismissal disposes of their statutory right to proceed collectively. They therefore have standing to appeal and may do so after the interlocutory decertification order to which they are adverse merges with final judgment.
The panel further held that the collective actions were
properly decertified and the officers properly dismissed for
failure to satisfy the “similarly situated” requirement of the FLSA. Rejecting other approaches to this requirement, the panel held that party plaintiffs are similarly situated, and may proceed as a collective, to the extent they share a similar issue of law or fact material to the disposition of their FLSA claims. Addressing post-discovery decertification, the panel held that, when decertification overlaps with the merits of the underlying FLSA claims, the summary judgment standard applies. The panel concluded that the officers failed, as a matter of law, to create a triable question of fact regarding the existence of a department-wide policy or practice. In the absence of such a policy or practice, and in the absence of allegations of any other similarity of law or fact material to the disposition of the officers’ claims, the officers were not “similarly situated” within the meaning of the FLSA.
COUNSEL
Gregory Glenn Petersen (argued), Gregory G. Petersen A
Law Corporation, Santa Ana, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Brian P. Walter (argued), Geoffrey S. Sheldon, David A.
Urban, and Danny Y. Yoo, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Los
Angeles, California; for Defendant-Appellee.
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
The present appeal arises from the decertification of a pair of related collective actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 207. Between 2004 and 2009, roughly 2,500 officers (“the Officers”) of the Los Angeles Police Department (“the Department”) opted into two collective actions alleging a pervasive, unwritten policy discouraging the reporting of overtime. After notice to potential collective action members and several years of discovery, the government defendant, the City of Los Angeles (“the City”), moved for decertification of the collective actions on the ground that the Officers within each were not “similarly situated” within the meaning of section 16(b) of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b). According to the City, if any Officers were denied pay for their earned overtime, it was due to unrelated instances of worksite- and supervisor-specific misconduct, rather than a single, Department-wide policy or practice.
The district court granted the City’s motion for decertification and dismissed the Officers without prejudice to refiling their FLSA claims individually. [1] The original plaintiffs in the two decertified actions then reached settlements with the City on their own claims, and the district court entered final judgment. Although no longer plaintiffs at that point, the Officers filed timely appeals from final judgment, challenging their decertification and dismissal.
We are asked first whether the Officers can appeal a decertification order when they were dismissed from the collective action before final judgment and without prejudice to their individual FLSA claims. We hold that they can. Opt-in plaintiffs are parties to the collective action, and an order of decertification and dismissal disposes of their statutory right to proceed collectively. They therefore have standing to appeal and may do so after the interlocutory decertification order to which they are adverse merges with final judgment.
We are asked next whether the collective actions here were properly decertified and the Officers properly dismissed for failure to satisfy the “similarly situated” requirement of the FLSA. We hold that they were. Although the district court erred in its interpretation of the “similarly situated” requirement and in the standard it applied in evaluating decertification, a de novo review of the record reflects that the Officers failed, as a matter of law, to create a triable question of fact regarding the existence of a Department-wide policy or practice. In the absence of such a policy or practice, and in the absence of allegations of any other similarity of law or fact material to the disposition of In the absence of statutory or case law guidance, the district courts, both within this circuit and without, have arrived at a loose consensus as to the proper procedure for determining whether the collective mechanism is appropriate. See 1 McLaughlin on Class Actions § 2:16 (14th ed. 2017); see also Leuthold, 224 F.R.D. at 466–67 (citing examples).
First, at or around the pleading stage, plaintiffs will typically move for preliminary certification. [1] McLaughlin on Class Actions § 2:16; 7B Fed. Prac. & Proc. Civ. § 1807. Preliminary certification, as noted, refers to the dissemination of notice to putative collective members, conditioned on a preliminary determination that the collective as defined in the complaint satisfies the “similarly situated” requirement of section 216(b). Symczyk, 569 U.S. at 75. At this early stage of the litigation, the district court’s analysis is typically focused on a review of the pleadings but may sometimes be supplemented by declarations or limited other evidence. See, e.g., Sheffield v. Orius Corp., 211 F.R.D. 411, 413 (D. Or. 2002). The level of consideration is “lenient,” Camesi v. Univ. of Pittsburgh Med. Ctr., 729 F.3d 239, 243 (3d Cir. 2013); Anderson v. Cagle’s, Inc., 488 F.3d 945, 953 (11th Cir. 2007) — sometimes articulated as requiring “substantial allegations,” sometimes as turning on a “reasonable basis,” but in any event loosely akin to a plausibility standard, commensurate with the stage of the proceedings. See, e.g., Halle, 842 F.3d at 224; Morgan, 551 F.3d at 1260 n.38; Thiessen, 267 F.3d at 1105; Mooney v. Aramco Servs. Co., 54 F.3d 1207, 1214 (5th Cir. 1995), overruled on other grounds by Desert Palace, Inc. v. Costa, 539 U.S. 90 (2003); cf. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6); Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 679 (2009).
A grant of preliminary certification results in the dissemination of a court-approved notice to the putative collective action members, advising them that they must affirmatively opt in to participate in the litigation. [1] McLaughlin on Class Actions § 2:16; 7B Fed. Prac. & Proc. Civ. § 1807; see also Hoffmann-La Roche, 493 U.S. at 170–71. A denial of preliminary certification precludes dissemination of any such notice. Denial of preliminary certification may be without prejudice and may be revisited by the district court after further discovery. Halle, 842 F.3d at 225; see, e.g., D’Anna v. M/A-COM, Inc., 903 F. Supp. 889, 894 (D. Md. 1995). Or it may be with prejudice, in which case, if premised on the party plaintiffs’ failure to satisfy the “similarly situated” requirement of section 216(b), it functions as an unfavorable adjudication of the right to proceed in a collective. Mickles, 887 F.3d at 1280; see also Sandoz, 553 F.3d at 915 n.2. In such cases, if opt-in plaintiffs have already joined, they will be dismissed without prejudice to the merits of their individual FLSA claims, and the original plaintiff will be left to litigate alone. Mickles, 887 F.3d at 1280 (citing examples).
Assuming the collective action has survived its earlier scrutiny, the second stage will come at or after the close of relevant discovery. See Hipp v. Liberty Nat’l Life Ins. Co., 252 F.3d 1208, 1218 (11th Cir. 2001) (per curiam). The employer can move for “decertification” of the collective action for failure to satisfy the “similarly situated” requirement in light of the evidence produced to that point. [1] McLaughlin on Class Actions § 2:16; 7B Fed. Prac. & Proc. Civ. § 1807. The district court will then take a more exacting look at the plaintiffs’ allegations and the record. Anderson, 488 F.3d at 953; Thiessen, 267 F.3d at 1102–03. Because of its purpose and timing, decertification can resemble a motion for partial summary judgment on the “similarly situated” question, and may be combined with cross-motions for summary judgment. See, e.g., Sargent v. HG Staffing, LLC, 171 F. Supp. 3d 1063, 1070 (D. Nev. 2016).
If the motion for decertification is granted, the result is a negative adjudication of the party plaintiffs’ right to proceed in a collective as that collective was defined in the complaint. The opt-in plaintiffs are dismissed without prejudice to the merits of their individual claims, and the original plaintiff is left to proceed alone. Hipp, 252 F.3d at 1218. If the motion for decertification is denied, the collective proceeds toward trial, at least on the questions justifying collective treatment. Id.
In determining, as a matter of first impression in this circuit, how to evaluate a motion for decertification, we first must confirm that the district court was correct in considering decertification at the point it did, and on the record then available. We conclude that it was.
The two-step approach has been endorsed by every circuit that has considered it. [9] See Myers, 624 F.3d at 554– 55 (2d Cir.); Camesi, 729 F.3d at 243 (3d Cir.); White, 699 F.3d at 877 (6th Cir.); Thiessen, 267 F.3d at 1105 (10th Cir.); Morgan, 551 F.3d at 1260 (11th Cir.). There is good reason for this consensus. In the absence of any statutory directive, the proper means of managing a collective action — the form and timing of notice, the timing of motions, the extent of discovery before decertification is addressed — is largely a question of “case management,” Hoffmann-La Roche, 493 U.S. at 174, and thus a subject of substantial judicial discretion. See GCB Commc’ns, Inc. v. U.S. S. Commc’ns, Inc., 650 F.3d 1257, 1262 (9th Cir. 2011); see also, e.g., Myers, 624 F.3d at 555 n.10; Comer v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 454 F.3d 544, 546 (6th Cir. 2006). There are of course limits to that discretion. In some cases, it may be that a district court abuses its discretion in refusing to allow notice to putative collective action members, or in decertifying too early or too late. See, e.g., Woods v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co., 686 F.2d 578, 580 (7th Cir. 1982) (observing that, in a valid collection action, “forbid[ding] the sending of notice altogether” would be an abuse of discretion). But as a general rule, the two-step process, culminating in a decertification motion on or after the close of relevant discovery, has the advantage of ensuring early notice of plausible collective actions, then eliminating those whose promise is not borne out by the record.
We turn next to the meaning of the statutory term “similarly situated.” As the question is one of statutory construction, we proceed de novo. In re Mitchell, 977 F.2d 1318, 1320 (9th Cir. 1992).
There is no established definition of the FLSA’s “similarly situated” requirement, nor is there an established test for enforcing it. See Thiessen, 267 F.3d at 1102. This absence of authority is surprising, as being “similarly situated” is the key condition for proceeding in a collective, and thus the issue on which a grant or denial of decertification generally depends. Nonetheless, broadly speaking, two approaches to the “similarly situated” requirement have emerged. See Mooney, 54 F.3d at 1214.
We turn to the standard the district court should apply in evaluating a post-discovery motion for decertification. Determining the proper legal standard is a question of law,
21 We do not intend to preclude the district courts from employing, if they wish, a version of the ad hoc test modified so as to account for the flaws we have identified. Nor do we intend to preclude the district courts from employing any other, differently titled or structured test that otherwise gives full effect to our understanding of section 216(b).
We also note, without expressing an opinion as to the merits of such an approach, that the Tenth Circuit recently approved a district court’s use, in the collective action context, of an analogy to the defunct procedure for “spurious” class actions. In re Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., No. 17-1028, 2017 WL 4054144, at *2 (10th Cir. Mar. 27, 2017) (unpublished). Spurious class actions, which were available under the pre-1966 version of Rule 23, allowed plaintiffs to litigate en masse if they asserted a “several” right, shared a “common question of law or fact affecting the several rights,” and sought “common relief.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a)(3) (1965). Such class actions were “spurious” in the sense that, unlike true class actions, but similar to collective actions, they required each plaintiff to join the litigation individually. See Kinney Shoe, 564 F.2d at 862. so we proceed de novo. United States v. Hinkson, 585 F.3d 1247, 1261–62 (9th Cir. 2009) (en banc).
Because preliminary certification is not challenged in this case, we address only the standard the district court should apply to post-discovery decertification. We conclude that, in a case such as this one, in which decertification overlaps with the merits of the underlying FLSA claims, the summary judgment standard is the appropriate one.
Decertification, in the sense the term is typically used, comes after relevant discovery is complete, and in that respect resembles a motion for summary judgment. See Mickles, 887 F.3d at 1276; Anderson, 488 F.3d at 953; Thiessen, 267 F.3d at 1102–03. “At this point, the district court has a much thicker record than it had at the notice [i.e., preliminary certification] stage,” so, as with a post-discovery dispositive motion, “the plaintiff bears a heavier burden.” Morgan, 551 F.3d at 1261. The circuit courts have generally not described that burden in any detail, emphasizing only that decertification is “more demanding” than preliminary certification, Mickles, 887 F.3d at 1277, “more closely examine[d],” White, 699 F.3d at 877, and subject to a “stricter standard,” Thiessen, 267 F.3d at 1103. However, the district courts have gradually tended to coalesce around a standard they refer to as “substantial evidence.” 22
22 This approach is widely used within this circuit. See, e.g., Sargent, 171 F. Supp. 3d at 1079; Stiller, 298 F.R.D. at 631; Beauperthuy, 772 F. Supp. 2d at 1118; Reed, 266 F.R.D. at 449; Smith v. Micron Elecs., Inc., No. CV-01-244-SBLW, 2005 WL 5336571, at *2 (D. Idaho Feb. 4, 2005). And it is widely used elsewhere. See, e.g., Blair v. TransAm Trucking, Inc., 309 F. Supp. 3d 977, 1001 (D. Kan. 2018); White v. 14051 Manchester Inc., 301 F.R.D. 368, 374 (E.D. Mo. 2014) (quoting Martin v. Citizens Fin. Grp., Inc., No. CIV.A. 10-260, 2013 WL
The “substantial evidence” standard is not well-explained, nor are the reasons for its adoption. However, given the parallels between post-discovery decertification and partial summary judgment on the question of entitlement to the collective action mechanism, the standard has a certain logic. As it normally manifests itself in district court, substantial evidence is the standard for denying judgment as a matter of law during or after trial. See Wallace v. City of San Diego, 479 F.3d 616, 624 (9th Cir. 2007). “Substantial evidence is such relevant evidence as reasonable minds might accept as adequate to support a conclusion even if it is possible to draw two inconsistent conclusions from the evidence.” Reese v. County of Sacramento, 888 F.3d 1030, 1047 (9th Cir. 2018) (quoting Landes Const. Co. v. Royal Bank of Canada, 833 F.2d 1365, 1371 (9th Cir. 1987)). The standard is therefore a mid- or post-trial analogue to the test applied at summary judgment, which asks, pretrial, whether sufficient evidence exists to preclude a judgment as a matter of law because, viewing the competent evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, the trier of fact could properly find for the nonmoving party. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 250 (1986); Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322 (1986).
The Third Circuit, uniquely, has identified a different standard for evaluating decertification motions. In Zavala v. Wal Mart Stores Inc., 691 F.3d 527 (3d Cir. 2012), the Third Circuit concluded that a preponderance-of-the-evidence
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standard, the default standard in civil actions, should apply. Id. at 537. However, at least as applied to the present context, where the decertification question and the merits overlap, Zavala is unpersuasive. A preponderance of the evidence is, as Zavala noted, the default standard in a civil case. Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston, 459 U.S. 375, 387 (1983). But more precisely, it is the default civil standard for the plaintiffs’ “ultimate burden of proof.” Costa v. Desert Palace, Inc., 299 F.3d 838, 857 (9th Cir. 2002), aff’d, 539 U.S. 90 (2003); see Huddleston, 459 U.S. at 387. It does not follow that pretrial motions need be evaluated under a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard. Plaintiffs satisfy their “burden” at the pleading stage with allegations that “plausibly give rise to an entitlement to relief.” Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679. They satisfy their “burden” at summary judgment with evidence creating a genuine dispute of material fact, see Nissan Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Fritz Cos., Inc., 210 F.3d 1099, 1102 (9th Cir. 2000), such that a trier of fact could properly find for the nonmoving party once the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard is applied at trial. Accordingly, to the extent decertification and summary judgment on the merits present the same question, it should be the ordinary summary judgment standard, rather than a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, that applies.
Here, for instance, the Officers’ allegations of an unwritten, Department-wide policy discouraging the reporting of overtime do double duty. They provide a basis for collective treatment, as they raise a similarity of fact or law whose disposition would advance the litigation of the Officers’ FLSA claims. And, relatedly, they go directly to the merits of the individual Officers’ claims, as proving the policy at trial is essential to the Officers’ FLSA theory, including their satisfaction of the FLSA’s knowledge requirement. See 29 C.F.R. § 785.11. It follows that, in this case, a post-discovery decertification motion does double duty as well. It is, in effect, indistinguishable from a motion for partial summary judgment limited to the question of whether an unwritten, Department-wide policy existed. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a).
Put differently, to the extent overlap exists between the availability of the collective action mechanism and the merits of the underlying claim, challenges to the former are no different from challenges to the latter, and so should be analyzed under the same standard. In the present posture of this case — a post-discovery decertification motion — that standard is summary judgment. If it were otherwise, a decertification motion could become an end run around the submission of factual disputes to the trier of fact.
It follows that, to the extent decertification overlaps with the merits, a district court cannot weigh the evidence, as ordinary summary judgment practice precludes doing so. The collective mechanism is meant to ensure that party plaintiffs have the option of benefitting from the efficiencies of collective litigation — including, in cases presenting genuine disputes of material fact, collective access to trial. That principle is not consistent with allowing district courts to break apart the collective based on their own resolution of merits questions otherwise reserved to the trier of fact. If there is a merits dispute that would survive summary judgment on which the disposition of decertification also depends, the merits dispute should be tried. Whether the question will be answered favorably or unfavorably is for the trier of fact. See, e.g., Johnson v. Big Lots Stores, Inc., 561 F. Supp. 2d 567, 567, 579–80 (E.D. La. 2008) (decertifying a collective action premised on a “uniform policy or practice” after a trial on that and other questions).
In sum, to the extent the decertification issues overlap with the merits, we agree with the district courts’ widely held view that the standard on a post-discovery decertification motion is effectively the summary judgment standard. See supra note 22. We emphasize, however, that as with a motion formally styled as summary judgment, the district court may not, on a merits-dependent decertification motion, weigh evidence going to the merits. If collective treatment is premised on a genuine dispute of material fact as to the merits of the party plaintiffs’ FLSA claims, the collective action cannot be decertified unless the factual dispute is resolved against the plaintiffs’ assertions by the appropriate factfinder.
B
We turn now to the substance of the district court’s decertification order.
As an initial matter, the district court’s approach to decertification was legally incorrect in two respects. First, as already discussed, the district court applied an overly demanding test of the FLSA’s “similarly situated” requirement. See supra Part IV.A.2.c. Second, although the district court recited the substantial-evidence standard, which is an adequate statement of the summary judgment analysis, it weighed evidence regarding the existence of a Department-wide policy. 23
As with a motion styled summary judgment, however, we need not remand for reconsideration when the district
23 The district found, for example, that the largely “boilerplate” nature of the Officers’ declarations “call[ed] into question the declarations’ credibility.”
court applies an improper standard, as our review is de novo. United States v. City of Tacoma, 332 F.3d 574, 578 (9th Cir. 2003). Under de novo review, we may affirm if we conclude, as a matter of law, that the record does not reveal a genuine dispute of material fact as to the existence of a Department-wide policy discouraging the reporting of overtime. We do so conclude.
The key problem for the Officers in providing evidence of the Department-wide policy they allege is one of scale. That the policy is Department-wide is essential to the viability of the collective action, as it is the sole justification advanced for a Department-wide collective. Yet the evidence in the record is simply not probative of an unwritten overtime policy of that breadth.
The Officers’ primary contention appears to be that there exists a kind of tacit policy that operates top-down, such that an inference may be drawn that the policy applies Department-wide. As the district court noted, however, the evidence the Officers have produced — a mass of individual declarations, mostly containing rote recitations of hours worked and bare assertions of a certain Department “culture” — has a fundamentally different focus. The Officers’ declarations speak of immediate supervisors at discrete worksites. And even then the evidence is not of a uniform practice from which one might infer direction from a higher level, but of variable practices variably applied. Critically, there is no evidence of any directives, incentives, conversations, emails, or actions (such as denials of promotions) by Department leadership that could have communicated to local supervisors, implicitly or otherwise, a uniform policy against reporting small amounts of overtime.
Furthermore, there is no evidence to suggest that the declarants’ vaguely reported experiences are in fact representative of the experiences of the party plaintiffs Department-wide; the only evidence in the record is that they are not.
First, the Officers offer no sampling or expert statistical evidence tying the declarants’ statements to the experiences of the party plaintiffs or of the workforce generally. The declarations are too limited in individual detail to support an inference that failure to report specific instances of overtime was tied to a policy from above. Nor have the Officers presented evidence — lay or expert, anecdotal or statistical — that the City’s overtime claims process, or the enforcement of it, was somehow structurally inadequate, or implemented Department-wide in a way that inhibited the accurate reporting of overtime. Furthermore, as the district court noted, many of the declarants who claim they were first taught not to report overtime during their training at the Police Academy “were members of Academy classes that substantially pre-date[] the [D]epartment’s promulgation of the current [written] overtime policy.”
Second, although the Officers’ declarations are creditable evidence of instances of unpaid overtime, when it comes to the issue of a Department-wide policy, they run up against the City’s overwhelming evidence of widespread FLSA compliance. It is undisputed that 330,000 overtime claims in amounts of less than one hour were filed during the relevant period, including 64,000 by the party plaintiffs themselves. Confronted with that contradiction, lacking affirmative evidence of a structural problem, and in light of the Department’s widely disseminated written policy requiring that overtime claims be filed, no reasonable trier of fact could conclude that the City fostered or tolerated a tacit policy of noncompliance.
V
Absent substantial evidence that the City fostered or tolerated a tacit, systemic policy against the reporting of overtime, there is no genuine dispute of fact as to the only allegation the party plaintiffs have cited as a basis for proceeding in a Department-wide collective. The collective action was therefore correctly decertified and the opt-in plaintiffs correctly dismissed.
AFFIRMED.
APPENDIX
Campbell v. City of Los Angeles, No. 15-56990
Plaintiffs-Appellants: Daniel Campbell; Michael Fox; Ruzanna Luledzhyan; Humberto Jaime; Jerritt Severns; Joanna Linfield; Donald Linfield; David J. Tavizon; Christopher J. Luma; Marco A. Rodriguez; Russell Kilby; Christopher J. Kunz; Terry Johns; Michael P. Flynn; Randall Allen Garrett; Kenneth M. Montague; Kit Anthony Stajcar; Timothy E. Kohl; John C. Flores; Richard Gabaldon; Joseph M. Payton; Robin R. Brown; Billy Joe; Stacey Seymkowiak; Inge Yolanda Bowman; Manning; Velasco; Heather A. Gageby; Gerardo J. Davila; Adrian E. Koval; Agnos Amarantos; Jeffrey Stewart; Lopez; Mitchell G. Lambdin; Eric Hernandez; Michael Moriah Knoke; Manuel Madren; Megan D. Glaister; James H. Williams; Brett M. Clark; Roger Fontes; Ouahdi Monlacktena; Jude Washington; John Banelos; Ramon Martinez; Oscar Gamino; Mell Hogg; Richard J. Lopez; Jaime Zarate; George Chavez; Andrew Moody; Michael O’Connor; Eric Holguin; Jeremy Allen Escamilla; Cedric Washington; Asatur Mkrtchyan; Jason M. Burcham; John Shin; Peter Bueno; Anthony Ortiz; Christian Rueda; Philip Thompson; Richard Suvlate; Warren Pulley; James Quinones; Minh Nguyen; Joseph Yamzon; Theodore P. Maillett; Shawn Massey; Peter Lee; Fred C. Starkey, Jr.; Jude T. Washington; Steven Marin; Yvette Perez; Letricia Lopez; Leanna Rosenkild; Patricia Batts; Angelo Stewart; Jesus Bazan; Todd Behrens; Sonny Garcia; Solve Loken; Juan Gonzalez; Angela R. McGee; Michael Williams; Rick M. Roy; Michael A. Pytel; Andre Wright; A. Wright; Tanya Eppenger-Campbell; Morris Batts; Charles Tizano; Albert C. Mora; Charles A. Howard; Stephanie Tuller; Manuel Segura; Darryl Bernard McGreggor; Tarriel Hopper; Phillip R. Watson; Renee A. Minnick; Francine Spada; Erin Gabaldon; Carlos R. Ortega; Ramiro Cabrera; James A. McSorley; Alberto Del Valle; Elizabeth Boccanfuso; Giovanni Boccanfuso; Efren J. Corrac; Yasir Gillani; Joseph Pudelwitts; Jane Elizabeth Russom; Robert Casimiro; Angie Whetstone; Mike D. Nelson; Heather McLean; Nina Brown; Nelson D. Scroggins; Benedict J. Fernandes; Christopher Formby; David Jamieson; Ken Cabrera; Charles Garcia; Rogelio Ramirez; Catarino Perez; Rudy Chavez; Mario Gamez; Ackley Kane Mayer-Tucker; James D. Crawford; M. Rene Chavez; Issac Lowe; Carlos E. Ayala; Lisa Moore- Crawford; Edward P. Castro; David Manriquez; Philip Alaniz, Jr.; Aaron Skiver; Michael Yoro; Alonso Ramirez; Lisa Ruegg; Russell Long; Angel Salvador Bonilla; Alexander R. Alvarez; Karla Barraza; Vincent J. Correa; Donna J. Watkins; Richard Melendez; Darryl Brown; Charles Wunder; Luis Alvarado; Joseph Ciancanelli; Christopher Blankenship; Alejandro Arredondo; William M. Young; David Redd; Antonino Giambruno; Andres Cruz; Rene Zavala; Matthew Saenz; Adrian Chin; Marlon Fields; Henry Colebrooke; Ritchie Tijerina; Marco Vargas; Sonia Rimkunas; John Lawrence; Gary Eagleson; Dennis Lada; Anthony Aceves; Terry Keefer; Angel Cervantes; Douglas Workman; Anthony Perez; Michael Williamson; Gina Chovan; David Abdalian; Diosdado Coronel; Robert Andreno; Robert Williamson; Jorge Cruz; Victor Suapaia; Sean Meade; Brian Malneritch; Gregory Fuqua; Gerardo Vazquez; Victor Alvarez; Jaime Roussett; Carlos Mercado; Patrick Marmolejo; Ryan Whiteman; Richard Romney; Scott Koegel; Yvonne Whiteman; Wallace Wall; Pavel Gomez; Dave McDowell; Lisa Gallegos; Jesse James; Shon Wells; Vincent Stroway; Michael Pauley; Roberto San Roman; Steve Griffith; Timothy T. Rolsen; Peter Vasquez; Alan Aldegarie; Ralph Camarillo; Ray Denton; Neal Peterson; Robert Gonzalez; Jeremy Duncan; Ray Hallenbeck; Robert Cosner; Peter Sanchez; Will Munoz; Efren Acosta; Alan Little; Jesse Sanchez; Rigo Bonilla; Marvin Brent; Lori Sanchez; Sunti Singhanate; Pedro Cordero; Abe Rangel; Mark Dimitt; Robert Aguilar; Patricia Smith; Alejandro Izquierdo; Bryce Verna; Joanne Needham; Catherine Massey; Frank Bancalari; Julio Umana; Patrick O’Dea; Ray Jeter; Jaime McBride; Miguel Barajas; John Bigrigg; Gina Meza; Maggie Sherman; Mario Ontiveros; Jeffrey Leu; Patricia Guessferd; Fernando Ochoa; Javier Sanchez; Leonard Johnson; Willian Proctor; Lamont Jerrett; Jacob Snow; Douglas Panameno; Steve Zavala; James Vena; Robert Deamer; Phillip Carr; Darell Matthews; Oscar Prado; Daniel Odoh; Robian Tango; Anthony Perez; Don Montelibano; Demetrio Mendoza; Regina Nares; William Gutierrez; Gary Nanson; Peter Laundelius; Barry Bottai; Randal Bowman; Raffi Khandikian; Benjamin Zuckerman; Hilton Henry; Rudy Gonzales; Richard Oke; Kelly Edwards; David Ham; Lane Bragg; Angelo Castro; Dan McCoole; Justin Mudgett; Paul Menchaca; John Chilstrom; Jimmy Martinez; Richard Krynsky; Cameron Carrillo; Edward Rocha; Michael Belmonte; Carolyn Coward; Timothy Wunderlich; Jason Armendariz; Claudia Gray; Emerson Holder; Mark Pompano; Paul Floge; Anthony Ramos; Cynthia Gomez; Osacar Villarreal; Robert Takanashi; Mark Ramirez; Michael Shea; Shawn Stevens; David Rosenthal; Matt Jacobik; Stephanie Southerland; John Key; Eloy Ochoa; Dennis Nelson; Oscar Lopez; Robert Knight; Ernie Schoop; Rolf Knuth; John Kim; Robert Gallegos; John Gomperz; Rodolfo Lemos; Scott Blackman; Issac Lowe; David Cueto; Adrian Ferns; David Tello; Chad Costello; Thomas Bergren; Patrick Beighley; Jennie Wong; Kyle Lee; Kris Davis; Daniel Gregg; Albert Gonzalez; Gonzalez; Barry Brooks; Steven Cohen; Greg Andrachick; Joseph Satow; Linda Thompson; Jonathan Goode; Peter Hopkins; Michael Rex; Bradley Schumacher; Paul Clements; Robert Yanez; Rene Acosta; William Heider; Martin Martinez; Juan Zarate; Jose Ortega; Frank Montelongo; Antonio De La Torre; Jackie Fort; Jose Diaz-Ibarra; David Armas; Anthony Smith; Todd Carpenter; Robert Ruiz; Paul Waymire; Andrew Chase; Sandra Magdaleno; James Sterling; Jose Mireles; Mary Culpepper; Juan Cruz; Oscar Cansino; Dennis Clifford; Maryann Bunag; Michael Rippe; Michael Rubin; George Bashai; Matthew Bakotich; David Benioff; Ronald McNally; Jeffri Norat; Jose Verdin; Yvette Perrodin; Mike Gilbert; Emery Newsom; Holland Holland; Alexander Kordis; Jerry Lucio; James Mark Arenas; Todd Bridges; Ruben Gutierrez; Leonard Garza; Andre Dixon; Richard Compton; Greg Bruce; Anthony Cole; Darryl Danaher; Osmund Bouligny; Ron Lagrassa; Ruzanna Luledzyan; Terry Saleono; Victor Mencias; Michael Knoke; Guadalupe Alaniz; Kenneth Buscarino; Canales Canales; Kevin Cotter; Cominic Counts; Guy Faltinowski; Carlos Lozano; Ramon Mejia; Valentine Reyes; David Salcedo; Anthony Tejada; Thomas Wicks; Clarence Williams; Stephen Winter; Theodore Williams; Frank C. Montelongo; Christopher Clark; Bruce Murdoch; Song Suh; Paul Avila; Randy Peterson; Gregory Probst; Christine Wycoff; Len Lai; Travonne Dixon; Kristan Zalokar; Arnold Porter; Cathy Luke; Pedro Benavides; Stacy Pierce-Rogers; Chiquita Brown; John Porras; Tom Gracey; Alan Bone; Stephen Gordon; Edmond Yagubyan; Money Scott; Steve Vera; Anthony Magaleno; Robert Martinez; Robert Vasquez; Chris Chavez; Antonio Rodriguez; Edward Silva; Carlos Quintero; Michelle Thomas; Nicholas Sysak; Cynthia Barlow; Henry Mendoza; Merita Woodle; Joseph Terena; Brian Koren; Richard Roberts; Ivan Vintimilla; Gary Verge; Dean Monteleone; Traci Grundland; Douglas Kirkland; Scott Teubert; Debbie Luker; Murrell Pettway; John Pasquariello; Tim Olsen; Rossum; Lupe Palomares; Jerry Kowalsky; James Chong; Javier Vargas; Andres Gallagher; Andrew Gallagher; Arthur Grein; Jason Zapatka; Robert Lewis; Julie Browne; Derek Sledge; Jose Salcedo; Michael Saghera; Ramiro Ruezga; Gil Padilla; Tony Fitzsimmons; David Carbajal; Suzan Nelson; Jeff Nelson; Tim Galli; Rodrigo Rodriguez; Stanley Schott; Dale Ziesmer; Ronald De Wyke; Kenneth Richard Vanhooser II; Virgil Casstor; Kenneth Hurley; Mayda Espinoza; David Kong; Bobbie Covington; Ronald Wyke; Maria Morrison; Becky Strong; Jennifer Vass; Neil Wank; Melvin Durant; Catherine Durant; Larry Covington; Javier Borrego; Lonnie Benson; Frank Amador, Jr.; Joseph Morrison; Arturo Yanez; Christopher Campagna; Gilbert Murillo; Fred De La Cerda; Karena Rowan; Vickie Nguyen; Edward Yoon; Gregory White; Adam Hollands; Sal Ogaz; Robert Quezada; Marston Taylor; Robert Golden; Robert Murray; Susan Willis; Salvador Jaramillo; Woon Chong; Lisa Gropp; Mauricio Vargas; Martha Jaime; William Driver; Omar Cedre; Laura Curtin; Young Honor; Robin Jones; Roberto R. Lopez; David Love; Richard Mossler; Tim O’Gorman; Michael Stalnecker; William Snowden; Alex Tellez; Paul Von Lutzow; Pedro Machuca; Owen Mills; Don Sasaki; Marc Tessier; Alfonso Villaneda; Gary Weller; David Stirling; Jeff Merlo; George Mejia; Elliott King; Frank Garcia; Raphael Ferrer; James Eldridge; John Downey; Gerardo Davila; Raquel Cruz; Mike Cassetta; Fred Brignoni; Paul Bowser; Andre Baydaline; Ralph Barone; Raymond Ygual; Doug Gallaher; Timothy Dacus; Gerardo Madera; Manuel Sierra; Frank Lopez II; Terence Klafke; Benjamin Hetzler; Vincent Deglinnocenti; John Cordova; Martin Franco; Gary Bean; Brandon Mamrot; Jeffrey Tint; Charles Hawley; Danny Roman; Francisco Gonzalez; Daniel Robinson; Jamie Smerdel; Alan Thatcher; Reggie Dickerson; Dana Grant; Nicholas Milazzo; James Poon; Belinda Robinson; Ignacio Mijares; Liavaa Moevao; Juan C. Campos; Donald Richards; Monica Quijano; Steven Muirhead; Jaime Anchondo; Tanza Smalls; Raymond Hernandez; Jay Mastick; Nelson Ramaya; Adam Altamirano; Paul Lawson; Scott Engedal; George Bowens, Jr.; Jesus Ravega; Tina Glenn; Steven Stear; Scott Murachver; Javier Montenegro; Peggy Moseley; Juli Dawn Munson; Tracie L. Noggle; James Noss; Christopher O’Donnell; Christy Donorovich- O’Donnell; Ralph Brown; Stephen Bucher; Kimberly Cisco; Arno Clair; Kelly Clark; Richard Davis; Leonard Drayton; Arthur Duran; Paul Espinoza; Arldwin Flores; Hugh O’Gara; Elipido Orozco; Maria Orta; Timothy Gallick; Brian Gan; Michael Goldstein; James Goodwin; Robert Guevara, Esquire, Attorney; Oscar Gutierrez; Nicholas Hartman; Ryan Hicks; Kevin Holland; George Hoopes; Leonel Borja; Lee Jensen; Christopher Jordan; Charles Joseph; Ho Kim; Denny Leopoldo; Ernest London; Robert Lopez; Robert Luna; Richard Luskleet; Raymond Madrid; Saul Carrillo; Kelly Chrisman; Joseph Dominguez; Yolanda Echols; Robert Felix; Robert Fernandez; Edgar Magat; James Mankey; William Marbley; Chris Marshall; Gabriel Martinez; David Mascarenas; Matthew Meneses; Pablo Monterrosa; Stacey Morris; Edward McGowan, Jr.; Paul McKechnie; James Onthank, Jr.; William Orndorff II; Isaias Ornelas; Adam O’Neill; Robert Paterson; Scarlett Paterson; Joseph Pelayo; Floro Pinzon; Jary Quinones; Luis Robles; Guadalupe Ruiz; Terry Mattox Ruppel; Richard J. Russell; Kristine Salazar; Dean Schram; Robert Snedden; S. Owens; Jeffrey Pelczar; David Podesta; Annette Potts; James H. Quinlan; Bobby Ramero; Steven Rausch; Frank Schweitzer; Jeffrey Stapleton; Jeffrey X. Vach; Paul Valencia; Abraham Vidriezca; Matthew Vocke; Terrell West; Gregory Owens; James Rahm; Osbaldo Ramos; Stephen Redd; Anthony Reitz; John Rice; Michael Rimkunas; Johnny Sanchez; Erik Schick; Jerry Siel; John Smith; Michael Smith; Steven Smith; Terry Shelley; Gloria Snipes; Ronald Stamps; Kelly Sullivan; Peter Waack; Richard Wall; David Wren; Maria Yamamoto; Fred Yamamoto; William Young; William F. Justice; Trevor Jackson; Margaret Henry; Crystal Hayes; Richard J. Garibay; Mauricio Garcia; Lisa Garcia; Gilbert Garcia; Ernest Eskridge; Angel Domenech; Marlo V. Cross; Robert F. Chavira; Felicia Ann Bailey; Roger G. Archambault; Fernando Alvarez; Julio Benavides; Jennifer Lee Hammer; Richard Gurrola II; Stephen Glick; Robert Jon Duke; Daniel Chilson; Kenneth Richard Lewis; Michael J. Lorenz; Justin Malcuit; Robert Martin; Gorgonio Medina; Juvey Mejia; David Harris; Mark Henry Hernandez; Raymond M. Hernandez; Michael W Hill; Enrico P. Hizon; Woravoth Iddhibhakdibongse; Michael Jolicoeur; Yolanda Caterino-Clair; Anderson Boyce; Carl Barnhart; Joyce M. Banuelos; Sandra Valle; Joseph Taylor; Eddie N. Solomon; Carlos Savedra; Brian Reynolds; Daniel Putnam; Joseph O’Donnell; James Swift III; Victor Nunez; Season Nunez; Emigdio Neri; Tyrone Moore; Christopher Martinez; Joseph Linares; Gregg Webber; Michael Seguin; Fredger A. Alexander; Mark Aragon; Marlene Arguello; Ralph Arzate; Rudolph Baca; Keith Washington; Steven Bishop; Eric Bixler; Edward Viadaillet; Gerardo Vejar; Michael Tomelloso; Clarence Speer; Mage Gene Simerskey; Amy Wong; Douglas Roller; Mario Ramirez, Jr.; Perry Moore; Brent McGuyre; James C. Marshall; Corinne L. Malinka; James MacDonald; Joan Leuck; Antonio Lacunza; Rayney L. Arnold; Juan C. Amancio; Iris Santin; James Redman; Kulin Patel; Ryan Nguyen; Kevin McNamee; Kevin Malm; Kenneth Kuntuzos; Robert White; Jeff Lutzow; John Richardson; Ernesto Munoz; Ramon Muniz; Francisco H. Hurtado; Michael Huff; Teresa Hernandez; Jose Contreras; Osvaldo J. Castillo; John Bart Juarez; Charles Hicks; Cheryl Gonzalez; Ricardo Feria; Mario Cruz; Michael Amado; Jason Abner; Dale Lopez; Danny Jiminez; Irsie Lee Henry; Shawn Havican; Nathaniel Hampton; Victor Gutierrez; Joe Galindo; Dimitrius Connor; Michael Arteaga; Juan R. Arenas; Bill J. Wilson; Anthony Vilardo; Michael Valencia; Lon Truong; Alan Sorkness; Rick Rodgers; Engelbert Quechenberger; Cesar Leal; Sharon J. Kroger; Michael Karatsonyi; Roscoe Jolla; Rudy De La Fuente; Victor Corral; Laura Cook; Jose Carias; Mitchel S. Windsor; Dale Washburn; Warren Tojong; Jeffrey Tiffin; Kandis Schmidt; Raymond L. Rangel; Lisa Phillips; Christopher Paterson; Steven Moody; Jose Maldonado; Mark Campell; Donna Wheeler; Vincent Vicari; Matthew L. Vannatter; Michael Valdes; Stephen Underwood; Michael Samuel Tirella; Rosibel Smith; Henry Servin; Julie Rodriguez; Tanya Rodda; Raul Porras; Richard L. Platzer; Michael E. Oppelt; Hector Olivera; Joseph Napolitano; Angelean Montero; Lawrence Martinez; James K. Lenoue; Ronald Von Gober; Paul Glascow; Deborah Fetters; David Dimeglio; Napoleon Curry; John Cook; Thomas E. Cleary; Todd Burns; Timothy Branley; Miguel Aguayo; Thomas E. Kirk; Jorge A. Gutierrez; Enrique R. Gutierrez; Jack A. Giroud; John D. Gardner; Lisette Garcia; Ken Furuta; Peter Durham; Jason Duplantis; Oscar Duenas; Cynthia J. Dragun; Carlton M. Brown; Lisa Wernli; Karen J. Smith; Howard Silverstein; Michael R. Pelletier; James J. Panek; Michael K. Ozaki; Scott Ogata; Ray Moreno; Roderick Miller; Connor Mac Ivor; Joshua Lukaszwski; Alfonso Alfaro; Miguel Arambula; Martin Barocio; Francis J. Bolan; James R. Browning; George Bush II; Wallace Carr; Jin Cho; Elva Coats; Robert W. Coats; Vic Corella; Rickey Crowder, Jr.; Ricky Davis; Robin L. Downey; David Herskowitz; Gary Holbrook; Eric O. Jones; Kenneth V. Koch; Lauro R. Larrinua; Hipolita Lizarraga; Manuel Alvarez; Maribel Arambula; Richard Aston; John J. Avalos; Ruben Banuelos; Alexander Bautista; Christopher Borunda; Paul Choung; John Coffey; David Corbet; Thomas Davoren; Tracye Fields; Michael Friesenhahn; Randolph D. Fukui; Sean Gonzalez; Jennifer A. Grasso; Joseph G. Graves III; Manuel Antonio Ibarra; Eric M. Johnson; Andrew J. Lassak; Daniel Lee; Thomas F. Lee; Don Magers; Alma Mark; Claire Smith; Jonathan E. Smith; Gregory R. Staats; Joseph Marx; Raymond W. Mauss; Kenneth K. Moore; Daryl Ordone; John Padilla; Steven Stranak; Michael Switzer; Cinthia Tapia; Tony Trusk; Ryan Verna; Laura Windsor; Larry Wright; Robert Yanez; Del Bourgeois; Gregory Hancock; Cecilia Cleveland; Kurt Miles; Jeff Mares; Jerry Liggett; Rocael Rodriguez; Jose J. Perez; Carias Warner; Shawtrice Watkins; Reynaldo Perez, Jr.; Richard Plows; Terry L. Pratt; Richard M. Prindle; Sallyann S. Procaccini; Kenneth Quigley; Tyrhone Ragland; Mark W. Reed; Robert Rivera; Alex Gabriel Rodriguez; John D. Rodriguez; Sergio Ruedas; Timothy Ruiz; Timothy S. Schey; Daniel A. Schmidt; Ramon Argulles; Debra Winter; Manuel Vides; George Torres; Kelvin Scott; Andrea Sanfillippo; Alfredo Rodriguez; Thomas Malloy; Edward Maciel, Jr.; Marlon Prodigalidad; Brenda Morales; Sandra Lopez; John Knighton; Mark Griego; Richard Gordon; Jeanette Flores; Phillip Tate; Danny Jones; Jaroen Hitanukulkit; James R. Hays, Jr.; Gabriel Ferreras; Michael Briano; Steven M. Takeshita; Jose Santiago; Manuel R. Ramirez; Alfred Pasos; Blanca Pasos; Robert Longdon; Keith A. Green; Michael Joseph Diaz; Theresa Coyle; Andre Abrams; Andres Cardenas; Terry Barclay; Meghan Aguilar; Mario Aguilar; Dean Watts; Daniel Vasquez; Dionne Watts; Kimberly Snyder; Orlando Smith; James Muniz; Maria Montoya; Paul Miller; Leonardo McKenzie; Chun Yim; William Yarbrough; Eduardo B. Trinidad; Anthony A. Razo; Samuel Williams, Jr.; Stanley Wiedenhaupt; Christopher Walter; Ramirez; Karen Owens; Ralph Mendoza; Gerald Mears; Marlon Marrache; Miguel Lopez; John Gidowski; Neal Fine; Rodolfo Ramirez; Robert Valencia; Gerardo Velasco; Derek Sykes; Thomas Small; Singh; John Richardson; Richard J. Ramirez, Jr.; Pierre Olega; Alejandro Nava; Nicholas Lee; Marcos Villanueva; James Hutchins; Robert Holcomb; Robert Hillard; Shelley Gallegos; Teresa Akune; Warner Carias; J. Padilla; Kenneth Nitschke; Jose A. Ferreira; Shawn Duke; Carlos Diaz; Duc Dao; Gary Cusick; Matthew Cundiff; James Clifford; Mark Cleary; Maurice Brunel; Raymond Broker; Edward Maciel; Joey Yanez; Edward E. Wheelis; Edison Z. Vistar; Hugo Valez; Julia Peat; Valentin Montesdeoca; Scott Moffitt; Adriana Bravo; Anthony Balderama; Sherwin Vigilant; Brandon Tuccillo; John L. Thomas; James Sands; Raul Rodriguez; Jason M. Pedro; Nicholas Noles; Daniel Mendoza; James Lopez; Keith Horeczko; Mustaffa Hassanzai; Joseph Gryder; Thomas Dawson; Jing Choa; Steven Beumer; Criselda Pedro; Marty Cotwright; Phillip J. Wright; Thomas W. Stone; Alex A. Pozo; Richard Mendoza; Rebecca Martinez; Hal Dexter Jones; Randy Hoffmaster; Jesus Hernandez- Soto; John J. Hatfield; Rebecca Martin; David Harrison; Matthew Fleming; Michael W Dunn; Howard Chan; Ernest Avila; Fred Tredy; Brent Josephson; Carlton Jeter; Jose D. Hurtado; Michael Hofmeyer; James Choi; David Sanchez- Soissons; John Licata, Jr.; David Lin; Josephine Mapson; Salvador Martinez; John M. Ray; Brodie Seagrave; Stephen Showler; Gregory Elias Trejo; Todd Costello; Jose Delgado; Charles Dickinson; Alma Burke; Salvador Flores; Sean Hansen; George Leiva; Louie Lozano; Georgia Odom; Alan Parra; Daniel Putz; Jose Salazar; Catherine Rymzsa Leon; Darren Stauffer; Rosa A. Torres; Teddy Amstone; Carlos Barrios; Maria Muro; Josue Merida; Michael Woodings; Donovan Michael Lyons; Earl Williams; Charles Urso; Heidi Stoecklein; Maurice Stewart; Daryl Scoggins; Rodney Rodriguez; Kyle B. 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Escoto; John Chrispens; Leroy Block; Danny Shry; Kristopher Rollins; Alfonso Reyes; Robert Orlando; Steve Morris; Roger Morgan; Christopher Merrin; Craig Markel; Jeffrey Anderson; Ruben Martinez; Andre Louis; Jeanette Lawrence; Gonzala Lara; Michael Kozak; Lyle P Knight; Michael Hall; Jimmy Grayson; Alejandro Galvan; Hector Esparza; Joseph Dudas; Keith Davis; Jack Davenport, Jr.; Timothy Colomey; George M. Castro; Warner A. Castillo; William O. Batista; Michael K. Barz; Siamone Bangphraxay; Ruben Arellano; Michel A. 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Smith; Matthew Casalicchio; Spree Desha; Divinity; Eric Jennings; Steve Grimes; Heath Adams; Robert Brogelman; Jay Vargas; James Edwards; Luis Delacruz; Robert Worrall; Robert Scutaru; Lorna Cavin; Peter Ponich; Robert Olmos; Augusto Mariano; Jeremy Fink; Donald Bender; Hector Chaidez; Alfredo Rosales; John Long; Mika Kuroiwa; Christopher Cortijo; Habib Munoz; Deshaun Hall; Dominick Fuentes; Chris Kliever; Osvaldo Gonzalez; Sandra Garcia; Ralph Alvarez; Rafael Tobar; Timothy Tully Scott I; Kenneth Santolla; David Perry; Ruthann Scott; Alexander Villalpando; Marian Bausley; Daniel Rios; Gustavo Camacho; Jonathan Miller; Susan Herold; Patrick Higa; Brian Peel; Arca; Salvatore De Bella; Roy Agbanawag; Earnest Williams; Steve Morales; Rudy Gonzalez; Michael Quezada; Ricardo Rivera; Alan Kreitzman; Steven Lemmer; Christopher Green; Claudia Mendoza; David Brandstetter; Sunny Sasajima; Michael Graham; Horacin Aguirre; Suzanne Vukovic; William Monahan; Clinton T. Weir; Edgar Cruz; John E. Redican; Pernell Taylor; John Armando Warren; Hugo Trujillo; Jesus Ramirez; Dennis P. Kilcoyne; Keith H. Spencer; Caesar David Gonzalez; James T. Willis; Binh Nguyen; Charles Giuliani; Grace Garcia.
Defendant-Appellee: City of Los Angeles.
Mata v. City of Los Angeles, No. 16-55002
Plaintiff: Cesar Mata
Plaintiffs-Appellants: Richard D. Alba; Jose Angulo; Francisco Arredondo; Jay G. Batson; Albert Bertieri; Jeffrey Burnley; Robert Calzadillas; Jose Carias; Lucen A. Daigle; Miguel Dominguez; Jess H. Faber; Austin B. Fernald; Mario Flores; Daniel Garcia; Joseph Getherall; Steven Gomez; Eric Hermann; Nahan R. Hernandez; Patrick A. Higa; Gregory Jacks; Ruben S. Jimenez; Allan Krish; Irma E. Krish; Darryl L. Lee; Rafael Lomeli; Michael McLann; Alonso Menchaca; Bryan Mivglaz; Trisha Mivlgaz; Abel Munoz; Donald R. Ornelas; Dana Ouiatt; Young W. Pak; Lee Perry, Jr.; David Petersen; Michael R. Peterson; Ryan S. Powell; Pablo A. Rivera; Henry Romero; Manuel L. Rumion; David Sabedra; Darrell Sanomo; Brian T. Schneider; Ruthann Scott; Sven Steffensen; Shad Stilkey; Patricia Suarez; Jonathan Sugam; John Talbot; Fred A. Tredy; Adan Urena; Onam Urena; Miguel Vaca; Miguel A. Vallejo; Rita Vallejo; D. Michael Vrolyks; Neil Warren,; Matthews O’Williams; Joe R. Witty.
Defendant-Appellee: City of Los Angeles.