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A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Texas against Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County. 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.

Grocery chain Smart & Final reached a tentative $19 million agreement in a class-action lawsuit claiming employees were not properly paid. The employees alleged the Los Angeles-based chain failed to properly calculate overtime pay and also neglected to pay for all hours worked. The suit also alleged other compensation was not paid.

Anticompetitive action by powerful companies hurts other businesses as well as individual consumers. A class action has been certified against 15 major U.S. and foreign airlines on behalf of all travel agents in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands, who issued tickets, miscellaneous charge orders, or prepaid ticket advances between October 1, 1997, and the eventual date of any judgment in the action.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Texas against Smart Cars of Houston, Inc. 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.

A class action has been filed against Elli's Associates for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the New York Minimum Wage Act, specifically for the failure to pay overtime to its employees. The class seeks their unpaid regular wages, unpaid overtime compensation, an additional 25 percent as liquidated damages, reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of the action.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against J&B Today's, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former hourly employees of all Florida J&B Today's stores, who since May 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.

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