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A class action lawsuit has been filed in the United District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Kaplan, Inc. The case involves violations of employment law, specifically of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA). No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

A judge has certified a lawsuit as a class action filed by day care providers in the Eastern Washington city of Mattawa. They have accused the state Department of Social and Health Services, Grant County and the city itself of discrimination. The lawsuit stems from a DSHS investigation into alleged overpayments of state and federal money used to subsidized child care for low-income families. That investigation led to a state auditor’s report that estimated DSHS had overpaid the women more than $800,000 because of falsified and inaccurate attendance records.

Home Depot assistant managers in California can sue the home improvement company as a class for unpaid overtime, a Riverside California County Superior Court judge has ruled. The decision stems from three separate lawsuits against Home Depot which were consolidated into one case in Riverside. The lawsuit claims that Home Depot routinely made "merchandising assistant store managers" work at least 55 hours per week and often more.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against A.M.A. Pretzels II, Inc., who conduct business under the name Auntie Anne's Pretzels. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees, who since April 2001, were not paid proper statutory overtime for all hours worked beyond 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks statutory and liquidated damages as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the action in order to be considered part of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential class members.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida against Lonocchio’s, Inc. The case involves violations of employment law pertaining to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Middle District Court of Tennessee against Jerry D. Wethington. The case involves violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

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