GARCIA v. TYSON FOODS, INC.

No. 12-3346.

770 F.3d 1300 (2014)

Adelina GARCIA; Antonio Garcia; Jeronimo Vargas-Vera; Efrain Aguilar; Paulina Aguilar; Adelaida Aguirre; Jose R. Aguirre; Salvador Almanza; Miguel Amaya; Rogelio Andrade; Jesus Anguiano; Efigenia Arana; Jose R. Arana; Ramon Arana; Alma Armendariz; Jorge L. Banda Valadez; Delfino Barragan; Lucia Barragan; Ramon P. Barragan; Holga Benitez; Baltazar Bonilla; Maria Guadalupe Bonilla; Catalina Bustillos; Bernardo Calderon; Etelvina Calderon; Gloria Calzada De Carillo; Manuel Calzadillas; Joaquin Camacho; Roberto Cano; Rosa M. Cano; Alberto Carrillo; Javier Carravajal; Luis Castanon; Maria Rosario Castillo; Victor Castillo; David Castro; Cipriano Cerna; Flavio Chavez; Jose A. Chavez; Griselda Claro; Jesus Claro; Jose L. Contreras; Eliseo Perez Correa; Agustin Cruz; Flor Angela Cruz; Lorenzo Cruz; Socorro De Leon; Aurora Chavez De Montes; Javier Delgado; Jose N. Delgado; Liliana Martinez Delgado; Lorezo Delgado; Gildardo Ramon Diaz; Rosa D. Diaz; Carmelo G. Diaz-Santamaria; Ana Duran; Edgar E. Duran; Abe Dyck; Elizabeth Dyck; Fernando H. Escalante; Marina Escalante; Candido Hernandez Escobedo; Carlos E. Espino; Francisco Estrada; Humberto Estrada; Maria Estrada; Aide B. Estrada Vital; Jesus Felix; Jose Flores; Juan Jose Flores; Tomasa Fraire; Erasmo Galan; Maricela Galan; Romualdo Galan; Gloria Galaviz; Rocio Galaviz; Ciro Galvez; Silvia Reyes Galvez; Agustin Garcia; Bertha Garcia; Humberto Perez Garcia; Luz E. Garcia; Mauro Garcia; Moises Garcia; Maria S. Gloria; Elia Goitia; Melquiades Gonzales; Juan M. Gonzalez; Maria T. Gonzales; Miguel Lorenzo Gonzalez; Rosari Melendez Grande; Manuel Guerrero; Samuel Guevara; Angel R. Gutierrez; Eusebio Guzman; Juana Guzman; Leticia Guzman; Rosendo Guzman; Silvia Guzman; Elizabeth C. Hamilton; Herber Rufino Henriquez; Alberto Hernandez; Efren Hernandez; Elida Hernandez; Feliciano Hernandez; Fidel Hernandez; Guadalupe Hernandez; Jesus Hernandez; Jorge Hernandez; Maria Hernandez; Miguel Angel Hernandez; Rosa Hernandez; Wenceslao C. Hernandez; Wilfrido Hernandez; Adrian S. Herrada; Aida Herrada; Alfonso Herrada; Maria Guadalupe Herrada; Elizabeth Herrada De Cruz; Randy Hoskinson; Oscar Interiano; Martin H. Isco; Margarita Leanos; Pedro Leyva; Celsa Leyva De Garcia; Blanca E. Lira; Diana Lopez; Genaro Lopez; Laura Lopez; Lauro Lopez; Margarito Lopez; Maria Del Carmen Lopez; Maria De La Luz Lopez; Maura Lopez; Miguel A. Lopez; Miguel Z. Lopez; Rodolfo Lopez; Modesto Loya; Jose A. Lujan; Manuela O. Garay De Lujan; Beatriz Madera; Monica Marmolejo; Feliciano Martinez; Fidel Martinez; Gandino Martinez; Leticia Martinez; Nestor Martinez; Rafaela Ortiz Martinez; Saturnino Martinez; Mario Maya; Domingo Martin Medina; Ramiro Mejia; Maria Dora Mendez; Rodolfo Mendez; Beatriz Mendoza; Irene E. Merino; Dionila Mezquita; Maria Molina; Maxio A. Molina; Sergio A. Monrrealrocha; Raul Monrroy; Alfonso Montano; Luis Monterroza; Adrian Morales; Francisca Magallanes Muniz; Alfonso Murcia; Carlos Murguia; Abraham Sosa; Abel Navarrete; Alberto Tamayo; Lorenzo Navarrete; Sonia Tamayo; Ramon Navarrette; Alisia Nieto; Jose J. Terrazas; Isaac Olguin; Maria Terrazas; Javier Olguin; Mary Olguin; Albaro Torres; Maria D. Olivas; Sang Thi Tran; Lauro Ortega; Thanh Ngoc Tran; Maria Rosa Ortega; Maricela Lares Ortega; Maria Urrutia; Yolanda Ortega; Rolando Vaillant; Francisco A. Ortez; Maria E. Valadez; Manuel Osorio; Yasmin Valadez; Jose Raul Palacios; Maria Angelina Palacios; Gilberto Armando Valencia; Miguel Perales; Abraham Vallejo; Bertha Perez; Gabriela Perez; Bertha Vallejo; Jorge L. Perez; Mariana Vanegas; Martha Perez; Gerardo C. Varela; Jose Alejandro Pineda; Alejandro Ponce; Jose Vasquez; Irma Ponce; Raymundo Vasquez; Juan Ponce; Salvador Vasquez; Jose Victor Prieto; Rosa Maria Velasco; Eugene Prokopinski; Saul Velasco; Juan Enrique Ramirez; Maria Ramirez; Nicolas Ramirezacosta; Jose Renteria; Alma Resendiz; Esteban Resendiz; Sandra Resendiz; Jose A. Reyes; Francisco J. Velazquez; Irma G. Velazquez; Miriam Del Carmen Reyes; Francisco Montes Rios; Reymundo Viana; Salvador Alvarez Rivera; Jesus Villeda; Jorge Robles; Santiago Villegas, Jr.; Luz M. Rocha; Sergio Zamora; Guadalupe Rodriguez; Jose R. Rodriguez; Marina Rodriguez; Rafael Rodriguez; Rosa Rodriguez; Salvador Romero; Ruben N. Salas-Ortiz; Ricardo Saldana; Sixto Saldana; Candido Marino Sanchez; Rosa Maria Sanchez; Ramon Sandoval; Daniel Santacruz; Luis A. Santacruz; Joaquin Santoyo; Sofia E. Sauceda; Alejandro Serrano; Armando Serrano; Fernando Serrano; Sergio Serrano; Brenda Serrato; Rafael Solis; David S. Solorzano; Aaron Sosa; Miguel Aguilera; Juana Almanza; Manuel Almanza; Benito Barragan; Maria Cerritos; Ismael Chairez; Sara Chavarria; Raquel Estrada; Ana R. Flores; Jose Huerta; Sophia Lamdero; Arnulfo Lira; Gabriela Lira; Julia Lopez; Manuel De Jesus Lopez; Maria A. Martinez; Maria Guadalupe Martinez; Mareial Morales; Estela Murguia; Armando Nunez; Michelle Ortega; Omar Ortega; Luis Ortiz; Rosalia Perez; Socorro Perez; Maria Perez-Serrano; Melania Pineda; Jose Ramirez; Peter Ramirez; Steven Ramirez; Diana Ramos; Blanca Salmeron; Felix Solozano; Vashon L. Telfair; Arturo Villanueva; Irineo Zepien; Carlos Acosta; Elias Murillo Avalos; Hugo Castruita; Alicia Munoz Hernandez; Francisco Huereque; Alicia Martinez; Jose G. Martinez; Pedro Neave; Catalina Alvaraez De Nichols; Eduard Nichols; Maria Del Carmen Perez; Maria Margarita Renova; Alicia Sanchez; Macario R. Farias; Primitivo Galvez; Maria Lourdes Gonzales; Gaspar Benito Lux; Enrique Munoz; Gregoria Ramirez; Salvador Sanchez; Aura Santacruz; Jose I. Valdez; Hector Garcia Valles; Jesus Aguilar; Maria A. Arreola; Federico G. Baltazar; Armando Castillo; Abigail Chairez; Maria Estrada Chairez; Patricia Correa; Angelica Maria Nunez Enriquez; Jose Anselmo Enriquez; Francisco Esquivel; Humberto Esquivel; Tomas Felix; Maria Flores; Samuel Gomez; Elizabeth Gonzales; Kristal Gonzalez; Ronald W. Harden; Teodolo Heredia; Mario Herrera; Riborgerto Johnson; Jose De Jesus Liamas; Luis E. Lozano; Mario Chairez Mares; Eusebio Marroquin; Maria Noeli Montoya; Norma Naiera Morales; Hugo Ortega; Rosalba Ortega; Gonzalo Padilla; Mercedes Ramirez; Salvador Rojo; Rodolfo Rubalcava; Rosinda De Jesus Ucles; Iginio Cruz; Felipe Bravo; Charles Velazquez Baez; Reyna Lopez; Aurora Aldana; Eduardo F. Nolasco; Pedro Baltazar; Eddie Prieto; Jacimto Almarez; Carlos Martinez; Maria Martinez; Josefina Garcia De Rodriguez; Felimon Rodriguez; Jose Martin Hernandez; Josh Lundblade; Nora Duran; Sandra M. Hernandez Alfaro; Fausto Vasquez; Jose Hernandez; Jorge Hinojosa; Severiona Hinojosa; Gilberto Guillen; Cruz P. Ramirez; Vidalina G. Galvan; Anthony Garcia; Ascencion Garcia; Roberto Aguilar; Roberto Almeda; Blanca Benitez; David Chavez; Luis Alberto Santacruz Castaneda; Martin Facio; Federico Chavez; Aaron Findley; Antonio Hinojos; Maria Laguna Guerra; Joel Garcia Maeda; Jose Morales; Elizabeth Ontveros; Joel Ortega; Manuela Ortega; Juan Reyes; Pedro Reyes; Heladio Rivas; Carmelita Rosales; Federico Rosales; Alfredo Rutiaga; Reyna Salinas; Ramon Soto; Jose Arras; Maria Del Carmen; Elaine Romero; Carlos Mendias; Sabrina Garcia; Adams Murillo; Amalia Morales; Michael Libarra; Arturo Celis; Sonya Maribel Hernandez; Maria Gerrero; Wilfrido Ingles; Edelmira Velazzo; Sharon Smith; Ramon Perez; Cindy Cisneros; Dora Alicia Martinez; Amado Figueroa; Guadalupe Quesada; Patricia Anguiano; Jose Luis Barron Mendez; Maria Ponce; Leonardo Godinez Villalobos; J.R. Otero; Alvaro Torres; Fidel Reyes; Ismael Lopez; Jose Valadez; Rafael Ruiz; Leopoldo Sanchez; Saul Rivera; Miguel Enriquez; Ricardo Martinez; Gloria Garcia; Jose Mineros; Ines Lopez; Pedro S. Hernandez; Alejandro Solorzano; Francisca Quintana; Cruz Guevara; Cristina Tucker; Pascual Barcenas; Miguel Cortez; Maria Elena Gomez; Roque Soto; Armando Aguirre; Jesus Alvarez; Galinda Banuelos; Leticia Cardemas; Maria Damian; Guillermo Dominquez; Carla Espino; Oscar Galvez; Bernabed Gramajo; Frank Guebanc; Francisco Guerrero; Antonia Hernandez; Leticia Hernandez; Marco Antonio Hernandez; Jose Martinez; Jose Luis Medina; Martha Maria Mendiola; Silvia Navar; David Ramirez; Maria I. Reyes; Francisco Rico; Juan Rico Rodriquez; Lawrence Steadham; Martin Terrazas, Jr.; Bertha F. Trejo; Juan Virquez; Isaac Adame, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TYSON FOODS, INC.; Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 19, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Hanson ( Todd M. McGuire with him on the briefs), Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Kansas City, MO, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Michael J. Mueller , Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Craig S. O'Dear and Terence J. Thum , Bryan Cave LLP, Kansas City, MO, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants.

Before KELLY, EBEL, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


BACHARACH, Circuit Judge.

A group of employees filed class and collective actions against Tyson Foods, Inc., seeking unpaid wages for time spent on pre- and post-shift activities. After the employees obtained a sizeable verdict and fee award,1 Tyson unsuccessfully moved for judgment as a matter of law. On appeal, Tyson: (1) challenges the judgment and denial of the motion for judgment as a matter of law, and (2) argues that the fee award...

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