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The United States Supreme Court recently issued a key ruling involving class action litigation. In\u00a0Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo<\/a><\/em>, the high court was asked to consider whether the plaintiffs could use the “representative evidence” method of proving predominance according to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3).<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs were employees in Tyson’s Iowa-based pork slaughtering, cutting, and retrimming departments. Due to the nature of the work performed, the workers were required to don specific protective gear prior to beginning their work day. The type of equipment they needed to wear varied based on the department in which they were assigned to work on any given day. Based on an injunction issued by a federal court in prior years, Tyson was required to compensate each employee an additional four minutes of pay each day to reflect the amount of time required to don and doff the protective gear, which were referred to by the company as “K-code time.”\u00a0Sometime in 2007, Tyson ceased making these payments to some of its employees while continuing to compensate others.<\/p>\n

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The United States Supreme Court recently issued a key ruling involving class action litigation. In\u00a0Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, the high court was asked to consider whether the plaintiffs could use the “representative evidence” method of proving predominance according to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3). 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