four years after a massive jury verdict in the plaintiffs’ favor and 16 months after the missouri supreme court sent them back for another try, a missouri judge has approved. in the missouri court of appeals western district thomas hootselle, jr. , et al. , individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and missouri. in 2012, the corrections officers filed a class action lawsuit, 2 alleging mdoc breached its statutory obligations under the flsa and its contractual duties under the. Missouri department of corrections. a cole county jury on aug. 15 awarded a group of missouri prison employees a verdict of $113 million for unpaid activities performed before and after their. corrections officer thomas hootselle jr. And other officers sued the doc, on behalf of a proposed class of more than 13,000 officers, for allegedly failing to pay them. it also awarded named plaintiffs hootselle, dicus and huff $25,000 each as a service award, and ordered the remainder of the judgment to be divided among the.
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