Perez v. Farms

CourtUnited States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (4th Circuit)
Citation650 F.3d 350,161 Lab.Cas. P 35914,18 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 1013
Docket NumberNos. 09–1917,09–1966.,s. 09–1917
PartiesLuisa PEREZ; Elvin Francisco Gonza Osovio, Individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs–Appellees,v.MOUNTAIRE FARMS, INCORPORATED, a Delaware Corporation; Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants–Appellants,andRay Barrientos; Maria Gomez; Juana Miguel; Gibran Moya Rivera; Gloria Paneto Castro; Shitwa Perez Lopez; Jose Antonio Santiag Lugo; Maritza Alcover; Julio Cifuentes; Juan C. Compian; Carmen Otero; Irma R. Perez; Julisa Sanchez; Carlos Tollinichi Lopez; Daysi De Jesus Vanegas; Haydee A. Betancourt; William Velazquez Rivera; Luz E. Villareal; Celso Escalante Lopez; Manuel M. Herrera; Luis Lopez Ortolaza; Alex J. Millet Caban; Jorge L. Negron Martinez; Jannette Ramirez Sepulveda; Christian H. Serrano; Catalina Velasquez; Avila E. Avila; Juan Rosa Camacho; Victor Manuel Diaz; Rafael Fonseca Villafane; Yamilette Garcia Quinones; Luis R. Irizarry; Elidad Perales; Maria Perez Marrero; Sandra Rivera Diaz; Pedro Tirado Barreto; Yahaira Torres Cintron; Victor G. Torres Lopez; Antelma Vasquez; Brian Vazquez Perez; Ana M. Puentes; Abner Velez Silva; Ana Maria Zamora; Raquel Arce Ramos; Ernesto Benavides; Angel Luis Calderon Suarez; Vicente Castro, Jr.; Oscar Colon Mangual; Marisol Cotto Rodriguez; Jerry Famania Roche; Maria Febrez; Guillermo Gonzalez; Sylvia Gonzalez; Elvia Gudino; Rafael Infante; Angel M. Munoz Perez; Rosa R. Nieves; Rufina Ortiz; Abel Ortiz Mazariegos; Cuauhtemoc Ramiez; Hector Zalazar; Agustin Bravo Gonzales; Leonel Bueno; Alberto Colon Cruz; Ivan Crespo; Olga Galarza Osorio; Victor Gracia Lopez; Waldermar Mendez Vazquez; Romelia Perez; Florencia Perez Escalante; Mauricio Pucio; Maria J. Rivera; Esperanza Rodriguez; Ramon Rodriguez Guzman; Ruben Velasquez; Ideliz Velasquez Vargas; Jesus Malpica Velez; Brenda Matos Caraballo; Sofia Medrano; Huto Morales; Edgardo Ortiz Hernandez; Thomas Padilla Silva; Lenny Santiago Lebron; Rodolfo Velez Cubero; Adrian Brizeno; Castillo Manuel Montes; Mary L. Garcia; Paula Mejia Mendez; Eleazar Perez Ortiz; Felix Bonilla; Andrew A. Long; Julian Morales; Stacey M. Norat Rosa; Jean Paul Souil; Adrian D. White, Sr.; Denes Alexandre; Dieupuifait Allius; Marie G. Allius; Jose Manuel Anaya; Jos C. Angeles; Eric Ayala Cruz; Elizabeth Baez; Jose L. Baez Rivera; Audin Bataille; Johanna Bermudez; Carlos G. Birriel Perez; Solange Blanchard; Floriberto Bonola Arellano; Cassandra Bowden; Anabel Busanet Vega; Leonide M. Cantave; Jesus Carrion; Exalus Charleron; James A. Dale; Timothy O. Dorsey; Marie N. Dorvilier; Luxone Dorvilus; Judith Ductan; Absalon Duverger; Solia C. Duverger; Rigoberto Escalante; Maria Estrada; Michael D. Farias; Mario Feliciano Flores; Liduvina Figueroa; David T. Fogg; James Frazier; Leon N. Frazier; Melvin O. Giddins; Marta Gonzales; Roberto J. Gonzalez; Mayra Gonzalez Santiago; Larry Harmon; Maria Hernandez; Manuel M. Herrera; Berrios Herrera Hamilton; Romelus Jean–Lucner; Jean C. De Jesus; Eleazar Jimenez; Erick Jimenez Tirado; James Johnson; Lisson Joseph; Ania B. Jules; Julien Jules; Jeomar Lebron Rivera; Joy Lecates; Jaques Litus; Marie Yolene Louis; Fernando Maldonado; Enid Mandez Vazquez; Ivan Marrero; Esperanza Martell; Luis S. Martinez; Intermo Mazariegos; Jesse Meeks; Juan Mercado; Nayra Mercado Guerra; Linda Mercado Morales; Charles Mood, Jr.; Jose Morales; Nelia Morales; Sylviana Moriden; Ines Munguia; Edwin Nieves Nieves; Yashira M. Ocasio Rivera; Manford Oney; Andrea Osten; Jerry J. Patton; Charles L. Payton; Delmar Perez Godines; Elias Perez Mazariegos; Betzaida Perez Mendez; Ricardo Quinones Roman; Angel Alicea Ramirez; Jannette Ramirez Sepulveda; Julie L. Ramos; Cynthia Reddick; Irwin Rivera; Gilberto Rivera Laboy; Jonathan Rivera; Juana Roblero De Leon; Ivan Rodriguez; Julio Rodriguez Cedeno; Abdiel Rodriquez Crespo; Ruben Rumos; Cynthia Sanchez; Monica Sanchez; Dersy Sanchez Castro; Giselle D. Santiago; Brenda Sastre; Richard L. Satchell; Victor Segarra Vazquez; Rafael D. Silverio; Bonaficio Solomon; Dolores Solomon; Kelly Taylor; Henry Texeira Jimenez; Charles E. Timmons, Jr.; David Torres; Jason Torres Rodriguez; Grace Turnage; Anel Ulysse; Francisco Vargaz–Franqui; Luis A. Vasquez; Niurka M. Velez Montalvo; Sandra E. Villata; Lena Roman Villegas; Velus Virgile; Sandy Dee Williams; Bessie A. Wright; David Adams; Elisee Ariste; Carlos Cintron; Maria Cisneros; Yarleem Colon Garcia; Mandel Corbin; William Cuffee; Fred D. Custis; Menieze Gustin; Alonzo Hagans; Sylphane Jean Lestin; Johnny J. Lopez; Manuel Lopez; Larry McCoy Cooper; Carod Merise; Daueyson Negron; Jennifer Pena Ayala; Maribel Perez; Lilia B. Rivera; Pierre L. Saint Hilaire; Tyrell Timmons; Susan Tripp; Marilu Velez Claudio; Luis E. Alvarado Morales; Joyce A. Askius; Noel Barrios; Paul Desrarius; Olisia Ductan; Joseph L. Garcia; Sylvia Gonzalez; Guillermina Guerrero; Javier Hernandez; Claretta Jackson; Eric Resto; Rios Eduardo Ruiz; Moises Rivera; Alberto Rivera Falcon; Sara J. Rocha; Juliana Rodriguez Andino; Adela J. Sanchez; Neredia Elizabeth Wright; Marie L. Altenor; Carmen Silvia Apodaca; James L. Bolden; Saint–Remy Charles; Renise Florestal; Luis C. Garza; Maria De La Luz Gonzalez; Gil Gonzalez; Rosa Gonzalez; Salvador Guerrero Romero; Louise V. Harris; Villa Louigene; Luis R. Rivera Marrero; Yolanda Martinez; Francisco A. Medina; Elie Monfort; Blanca A. Perdomo; Carlos Luis Perez; Jesus M. Quezada; Carlos J. Reyes; Ofelia Rodriguez; Miguel A. Santiago Rodriguez; Berenice S. Santos; Lamont D. Savage; Charles Savage, Jr.; Glydis A. Smith; Alma Venegas; Francisco Zamora, Sr.; Cheryl Zamudio; Ernst Cantave; Antonio Carter; William Cesar; Malvin Cintron Ortiz; Iris N. Cirino Pizarro; Regina Cisneros; Johnie Conquest; Guadalupe Diaz Perez; Erena Flamer; Marie Georges; Perr Giddens; Jennifer Gonzalez; Maurice Gordon; Everardo J. Juarez; Yoon Soo Kwak; Maria Herminia Moore; Carlos Morales Colon; Shawn S. Mullen; Tracy A. Nock; Mercelant Ocean; Lavi Oras; Claudia Ortega; Juan Pagan Santiago; Michelle Pointdujour; Gloria R. Pumphrey; Joan Quinones; Amalia E. Romero; Jessica M. Rosario Rivera; Ivray Sauls; Viergela Senat; Jessie R. Singletary; Annie L. Stephens; Oliver Thornton; Laura Tovar; Judith Williams; Suzette Jean Baptiste; Paulette Charleron; Martha Cesar; Lelie Dice; Sharon L. Eaton; Lefils Florestal; Melvina Marie Gibbs; Fredis A. Guzman; Michael A. Jackson; Raymond Johnson; Wilfrid Leneus; Francois Lifrance; Augusto Lopez; Oner O. Nevarez Ortiz; Alce Odaris; Milagro Doris Pascual; Roland H. Raut; Carlos M. Robles Delgado; Juan A. Santiago Velasquez; Leon Smith; Brenda Sturgis; Noelia I. Vargas; Reynaldo Vega; Valerie Washington; Laura Ascencio; Magdalena Bravo; Elfise Casseus; Joceline Desfines; Ariel Diaz Morales; John H. Evans; Lourda Marie Exantus; Selbo Frejuste; Wilkely Garcia; Elvira Gonzalez; Maria Gonzalez Monterrozo; Karina Guox–Arqueta; Rene Gutierrez; Wanda I. Melendez; Phillipe Monfiston; Juliana G. Monterrozo; Marie Gabrielle Montilus; Carlos M. Muniz Torrez; Donne Oguezana; Frantz Pierre; Youbens Pierre; Valerie Pinkett; Guilson Polynice; Timothy Pumphrey; Christopher Rodriguez; Victor Rodriguez; Bayron Rojas; Eliese Romain; Marie L. Rosier; Ismael Ruperto; Craig Satchell; Donta E. Vickers; Jason Tovar; Juan Pedro Vasquez; Jun Jie Zheng; Diana Alcius; Clarence Burton; Hector D. Caban; Ruben Cardona Lugo; Firana Desravines; Mathurin Exume; Choisius Florestal; Pedro Gil Galindo; Sergio Herrera; Charles Lecius; Dulce Jessica Leyva; Abner Maldonado; Bernard Montulus; Carline Murat; Donel Pierre; Jean M. Pierre–Louis; Sarai Rodriguez Ramos; Elizabeth Rosario; Zaida Iveett Santos Correa; Anthony T. Houston; Bernarda Ventura; Aurelia Gil Ventura; Margarita Gil Ventura; Jean Lesly Charles; Jacques Decembre; Marie Yanick Delva; Jean Dumonvil Lima; Marie M. Guerrier; Aristen Ilera; Laumise Ilera; Robeldo Lopez; America D. Macedo; Reymundo Martinez; Tomas Mazariegos Velasquez; Jean Mondestin; Jean Louis Noel; Ramiro Noriega; Miguel A. Ortiz Serrano; Omaira Otero Marrero; Larry D. Phillips; Amelice Pierre; Gadoul Pierrilus; Julio Angel Santiago Padilla; Randy De Jesus Soto, Claimants,Public Justice Center; Legal Aid Bureau, Incorporated; Legal Aid Justice Center; Maryland Employment Lawyers Association; Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association; Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, Amici Supporting Appellee.Luisa Perez; Elvin Francisco Gonza Osovio, Individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs–Appellants,v.Mountaire Farms, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation; Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants–Appellees,andRay Barrientos; Maria Gomez; Juana Miguel; Gibran Moya Rivera; Gloria Paneto Castro; Shitwa Perez Lopez; Jose Antonio Santiag Lugo; Maritza Alcover; Julio Cifuentes; Juan C. Compian; Carmen Otero; Irma R. Perez; Julisa Sanchez; Carlos Tollinichi Lopez; Daysi De Jesus Vanegas; Haydee A. Betancourt; William Velazquez Rivera; Luz E. Villareal; Celso Escalante Lopez; Manuel M. Herrera; Luis Lopez Ortolaza; Alex J. Millet Caban; Jorge L. Negron Martinez; Jannette Ramirez Sepulveda; Christian H. Serrano; Catalina Velasquez; Avila E. Avila; Juan Rosa Camacho; Victor Manuel Diaz; Rafael Fonseca Villafane; Yamilette Garcia Quinones; Luis R. Irizarry; Elidad Perales; Maria Perez Marrero; Sandra Rivera Diaz; Pedro Tirado Barreto; Yahaira Torres Cintron; Victor G. Torres Lopez; Antelma Vasquez; Brian Vazquez Perez; Ana M. Puentes; Abner Velez Silva; Ana Maria Zamora; Raquel Arce Ramos; Ernesto Benavides; Angel Luis Calderon Suarez; Vicente Castro, Jr.; Oscar Colon Mangual; Marisol Cotto Rodriguez; Jerry Famania Roche; Maria Febrez; Guillermo Gonzalez; Sylvia Gonzalez; Elvia Gudino; Rafael Infante; Angel M. Munoz Perez; Rosa R. Nieves; Rufina Ortiz; Abel Ortiz Mazariegos; Cuauhtemoc Ramiez; Hector Zalazar; Agustin Bravo Gonzales; Leonel Bueno; Alberto Colon Cruz; Ivan Crespo; Olga Galarza Osorio; Victor Gracia Lopez; Waldermar Mendez Vazquez; Romelia Perez; Florencia Perez Escalante; Mauricio Pucio; Maria J. Rivera; Esperanza Rodriguez; Ramon Rodriguez Guzman; Ruben Velasquez; Ideliz Velasquez Vargas; Jesus Malpica Velez; Brenda Matos Caraballo; Sofia Medrano; Huto Morales; Edgardo Ortiz Hernandez; Thomas Padilla Silva; Lenny Santiago Lebron; Rodolfo Velez Cubero; Adrian Brizeno; Castillo Manuel Montes; Mary L. Garcia; Paula Mejia Mendez; Eleazar Perez Ortiz; Felix Bonilla; Andrew A. Long; Julian Morales; Stacey M. Norat Rosa; Jean Paul Souil; Adrian D. White, Sr.; Denes Alexandre; Dieupuifait Allius; Marie G. Allius; Jose Manuel Anaya; Jos C. Angeles; Eric Ayala Cruz; Elizabeth Baez; Jose L. Baez Rivera; Audin Bataille; Johanna Bermudez; Carlos G. Birriel Perez; Solange Blanchard; Floriberto Bonola Arellano; Cassandra Bowden; Anabel Busanet Vega; Leonide M. Cantave; Jesus Carrion; Exalus Charleron; James A. Dale; Timothy O. Dorsey; Marie N. Dorvilier; Luxone Dorvilus; Judith Ductan; Absalon Duverger; Solia C. Duverger; Rigoberto Escalante; Maria Estrada; Michael D. Farias; Mario Feliciano Flores; Liduvina Figueroa; David T. Fogg; James Frazier; Leon N. Frazier; Melvin O. Giddins; Marta Gonzales; Roberto J. Gonzalez; Mayra Gonzalez Santiago; Larry Harmon; Maria Hernandez; Manuel M. Herrera; Berrios Herrera Hamilton; Romelus Jean–Lucner; Jean C. De Jesus; Eleazar Jimenez; Erick Jimenez Tirado; James Johnson; Lisson Joseph; Ania B. Jules; Julien Jules; Jeomar Lebron Rivera; Joy Lecates; Jaques Litus; Marie Yolene Louis; Fernando Maldonado; Enid Mandez Vazquez; Ivan Marrero; Esperanza Martell; Luis S. Martinez; Intermo Mazariegos; Jesse Meeks; Juan Mercado; Nayra Mercado Guerra; Linda Mercado Morales; Charles Mood, Jr.; Jose Morales; Nelia Morales; Sylviana Moriden; Ines Munguia; Edwin Nieves Nieves; Yashira M. Ocasio Rivera; Manford Oney; Andrea Osten; Jerry J. Patton; Charles L. Payton; Delmar Perez Godines; Elias Perez Mazariegos; Betzaida Perez Mendez; Ricardo Quinones Roman; Angel Alicea Ramirez; Jannette Ramirez Sepulveda; Julie L. Ramos; Cynthia Reddick; Irwin Rivera; Gilberto Rivera Laboy; Jonathan Rivera; Juana Roblero De Leon; Ivan Rodriguez; Julio Rodriguez Cedeno; Abdiel Rodriquez Crespo; Ruben Rumos; Cynthia Sanchez; Monica Sanchez; Dersy Sanchez Castro; Giselle D. Santiago; Brenda Sastre; Richard L. Satchell; Victor Segarra Vazquez; Rafael D. Silverio; Bonaficio Solomon; Dolores Solomon; Kelly Taylor; Henry Texeira Jimenez; Charles E. Timmons, Jr.; David Torres; Jason Torres Rodriguez; Grace Turnage; Anel Ulysse; Francisco Vargaz–Franqui; Luis A. Vasquez; Niurka M. Velez Montalvo; Sandra E. Villata; Lena Roman Villegas; Velus Virgile; Sandy Dee Williams; Bessie A. Wright; David Adams; Elisee Ariste; Carlos Cintron; Maria Cisneros; Yarleem Colon Garcia; Mandel Corbin; William Cuffee; Fred D. Custis; Menieze Gustin; Alonzo Hagans; Sylphane Jean Lestin; Johnny J. Lopez; Manuel Lopez; Larry McCoy Cooper; Carod Merise; Daueyson Negron; Jennifer Pena Ayala; Maribel Perez; Lilia B. Rivera; Pierre L. Saint Hilaire; Tyrell Timmons; Susan Tripp; Marilu Velez Claudio; Luis E. Alvarado Morales; Joyce A. Askius; Noel Barrios; Paul Desrarius; Olisia Ductan; Joseph L. Garcia; Sylvia Gonzalez; Guillermina Guerrero; Javier Hernandez; Claretta Jackson; Eric Resto; Rios Eduardo Ruiz; Moises Rivera; Alberto Rivera Falcon; Sara J. Rocha; Juliana Rodriguez Andino; Adela J. Sanchez; Neredia Elizabeth Wright; Marie L. Altenor; Carmen Silvia Apodaca; James L. Bolden; Saint–Remy Charles; Renise Florestal; Luis C. Garza; Maria De La Luz Gonzalez; Gil Gonzalez; Rosa Gonzalez; Salvador Guerrero Romero; Louise V. Harris; Villa Louigene; Luis R. Rivera Marrero; Yolanda Martinez; Francisco A. Medina; Elie Monfort; Blanca A. Perdomo; Carlos Luis Perez; Jesus M. Quezada; Carlos J. Reyes; Ofelia Rodriguez; Miguel A. Santiago Rodriguez; Berenice S. Santos; Lamont D. Savage; Charles Savage, Jr.; Glydis A. Smith; Alma Venegas; Francisco Zamora, Sr.; Cheryl Zamudio; Ernst Cantave; Antonio Carter; William Cesar; Malvin Cintron Ortiz; Iris N. Cirino Pizarro; Regina Cisneros; Johnie Conquest; Guadalupe Diaz Perez; Erena Flamer; Marie Georges; Perr Giddens; Jennifer Gonzalez; Maurice Gordon; Everardo J. Juarez; Yoon Soo Kwak; Maria Herminia Moore; Carlos Morales Colon; Shawn S. Mullen; Tracy A. Nock; Mercelant Ocean; Lavi Oras; Claudia Ortega; Juan Pagan Santiago; Michelle Pointdujour; Gloria R. Pumphrey; Joan Quinones; Amalia E. Romero; Jessica M. Rosario Rivera; Ivray Sauls; Viergela Senat; Jessie R. Singletary; Annie L. Stephens; Oliver Thornton; Laura Tovar; Judith Williams; Suzette Jean Baptiste; Paulette Charleron; Martha Cesar; Lelie Dice; Sharon L. Eaton; Lefils Florestal; Melvina Marie Gibbs; Fredis A. Guzman; Michael A. Jackson; Raymond Johnson; Wilfrid Leneus; Francois Lifrance; Augusto Lopez; Oner O. Nevarez Ortiz; Alce Odaris; Milagro Doris Pascual; Roland H. Raut; Carlos M. Robles Delgado; Juan A. Santiago Velasquez; Leon Smith; Brenda Sturgis; Noelia I. Vargas; Reynaldo Vega; Valerie Washington; Laura Ascencio; Magdalena Bravo; Elfise Casseus; Joceline Desfines; Ariel Diaz Morales; John H. Evans; Lourda Marie Exantus; Selbo Frejuste; Wilkely Garcia; Elvira Gonzalez; Maria Gonzalez Monterrozo; Karina Guox–Arqueta; Rene Gutierrez; Wanda I. Melendez; Phillipe Monfiston; Juliana G. Monterrozo; Marie Gabrielle Montilus; Carlos M. Muniz Torrez; Donne Oguezana; Frantz Pierre; Youbens Pierre; Valerie Pinkett; Guilson Polynice; Timothy Pumphrey; Christopher Rodriguez; Victor Rodriguez; Bayron Rojas; Eliese Romain; Marie L. Rosier; Ismael Ruperto; Craig Satchell; Donta E. Vickers; Jason Tovar; Juan Pedro Vasquez; Jun Jie Zheng; Diana Alcius; Clarence Burton; Hector D. Caban; Ruben Cardona Lugo; Firana Desravines; Mathurin Exume; Choisius Florestal; Pedro Gil Galindo; Sergio Herrera; Charles Lecius; Dulce Jessica Leyva; Abner Maldonado; Bernard Montulus; Carline Murat; Donel Pierre; Jean M. Pierre–Louis; Sarai Rodriguez Ramos; Elizabeth Rosario; Zaida Iveett Santos Correa; Anthony T. Houston; Bernarda Ventura; Aurelia Gil Ventura; Margarita Gil Ventura; Jean Lesly Charles; Jacques Decembre; Marie Yanick Delva; Jean Dumonvil Lima; Marie M. Guerrier; Aristen Ilera; Laumise Ilera; Robeldo Lopez; America D. Macedo; Reymundo Martinez; Tomas Mazariegos Velasquez; Jean Mondestin; Jean Louis Noel; Ramiro Noriega; Miguel A. Ortiz Serrano; Omaira Otero Marrero; Larry D. Phillips; Amelice Pierre; Gadoul Pierrilus; Julio Angel Santiago Padilla; Randy De Jesus Soto, Claimants,Public Justice Center; Legal Aid Bureau, Incorporated; Legal Aid Justice Center; Maryland Employment Lawyers Association; Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association; Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, Amici Supporting Appellant.
Decision Date07 June 2011

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