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Sec’y of Labor, U.S. Dep’t of Labor v. Lauritzen, 835 F.2d 1529 (7th Cir. 1987) .23 Tennessee Coal, Iron & R. Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 123, 321 U.S. 590 (1944) ..10 Torres v. Gristede’s Operating Corp. (Torres II), 628 F. Supp. 2d 447 (S.D.N.Y. 2008) ....................................................................................................................... 6 Torres v. Gristede’s Operating Corp., No. 04 Civ. 3316, 2011 WL 4571792 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 23, 2011) ................................................................... 7, 13, 28, 29 United States v. Rosenwasser, 323 U.S. 360 (1945) ...........................................9, 21 Walling v. Portland Terminal Co., 330 U.S. 148 (1947).........................................21 Yu G. Ke v. Saigon Grill, Inc., 595 F. Supp. 2d 240 (S.D.N.Y. 2008) ............. 29, 30 Statutes 29 U.S.C. § 202(a) ...............................................................................................7, 19 29 U.S.C. § 202(b) ...................................................................................................15 29 U.S.C. § 203(d) ........................................................................................... passim 29 U.S.C. § 203(m) ..................................................................................................11 Other Authorities Annette Bernhardt et. al., Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America’s Cities, Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Nat’l Employment Law Project & UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (September 2009) .............................................................................................................. 16, 18 Annette Bernhardt, Diana Polson and James DeFilippis, Working Without Laws: A Survey of Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City, National Employment Law Project (2010) .........................................................................17 iv
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