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QUOC VIET,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
VICTOR LE; COPIER VICTOR, INC.,
Defendants-Appellees. |
No. 18-6191 |
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
No. 3:17-cv-00114—Harry S. Mattice, Jr., District Judge.
Decided and Filed: March 10, 2020
Before: KETHLEDGE, BUSH, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.
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OPINION
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MURPHY, Circuit Judge. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1),
requires employers to pay overtime to employees who work more than 40 hours per week. In
this case, we consider the kind of evidence employees must present to create a jury question over
whether they worked overtime. Quoc Viet bought used copiers for Victor Le and Le’s
corporation, Copier Victor, and shipped these copiers to Vietnam for resale. After the parties’
relationship soured, Viet sued Le and Copier Victor alleging that they wrongly failed to pay him
overtime. Viet testified that he typically worked 60 hours per week but offered few details to
support his estimate. The district court found Viet’s testimony about his average workweek too
vague and conclusory to withstand summary judgment. We agree and affirm. |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
EDWARD J. HOLLAND, JR.,
Defendant,
EDWARD HOLLAND L.P., THE ROYAL BANK OF
SCOTLAND GROUP PLC; FREDERICK A. PATMON, SR.;
PEGGY YOUNG, as the personal representative of the
Estate of Hallison H. Young,
Defendants-Appellees. |
No. 18-1712 |
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit.
No. 2:13-cv-10082—Marianne O. Battani, District Judge.
Argued: July 30, 2019
Decided and Filed: March 10, 2020
Before: McKEAGUE, KETHLEDGE, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.
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OPINION
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KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. For decades the government has tried, on a rolling basis
and with varying success, to collect millions of dollars of unpaid taxes from Edward Holland, Jr.
Here, the government seeks to seize about $20 million of assets previously held by a partnership
created by Holland, on the theory that the partnership’s assets were really Holland’s own. The
district court rejected those arguments, and so do we. |
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