Court Rejects Redo of Out-of-State Worker Collective Status

The Seventh Circuit declined to reconsider its decision to block out-of-state workers from joining a collective suing a construction company for unpaid overtime in Wisconsin on jurisdictional grounds.

Texas-based Signet Builders Inc. won the prior ruling requiring all potential Fair Labor Standards Act collective members—not just the named plaintiff—to establish specific personal jurisdiction in the forum state, nixing participation for those who worked for the company elsewhere.

The workers requested another shot with backing from a group of civil procedure scholars, but the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied rehearing Monday.

Judge Amy J. St. Eve wrote ...