MORRISON v. COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, VA

No. 14-2308.

826 F.3d 758 (2016)

Gerard MORRISON; Christopher Thompson; Elton Polen, Jr.; Calvin Alexander; Michael Allen; Rocco Alvaro; Thomas Arnold; William Atwell; Robert Banasik; Timothy Barb; Todd Barb; Mathew Arnhart; Mervin Barrera; Oscar Beasley; William Best, Jr.; Bill Betz; Daniel Borden, Jr.; Edward Bowman; Fred Brandell; Donald Brasfield; Christopher Brown; Jon Bruley; Clyde Buchanan; Carlton Burkhammer; Robert Burlingame; Matthew Burns; Leo Burt; Leroy Butler, Jr.; Keith Cerzullo; John Chesek, Jr.; Michael Ciarrocchi; Steven Clark; Bradford Cochrane, Jr.; Thomas Connolly; David Conrad; Arthur Cox; Dustin Cramer; Tracy Crawford; Keith Cross; Eric Cunningham; Charles Cunningham; Danny Daniels, II; Michael Davis; Troy Dean; Yolanda Demark; Samuel Devera; Keith Dubetsky; Brian Edmonston; Kevin Edwards; Derek Edwards; Felecia Edwards; Sean Evans; Mark Feaster; Michael Fischer; Colin Flanigan; Thomas Flint; Michael Fontana; Ramiro Galvez; Michael Garcia; Kenneth Geffen; Jared Goff; George Gonzalez; Todd Gorham; Samuel Gray; Raymond Griffin; Wesley Grigg; David Gruendel; Mark Guditus; David Hall; James Harrison, III; Sheryl Hemingway; Charles Henderson; Kit Hessel; John Higginbotham; James Hobgood; Kimberly Hood; Trenton Houghton; Gregory Hunter; James Iacone; Michael Istvan; James Istvan; Anthony Jackson; James Johnson; Reginald Johnson; Thomas Johnson; Walter Johnson; Joseph Kaleda; Glenn Kaplan; Patrick Kelly; Rebecca Kelly; William Kingdon; Jospeh Kiser; Robert Kitchen; Joseph Knerr; Robert Konczal; Tony Kostecka; Ronald Kuley; David Lange; James Lee; John Leete; Jeffrey Lewis; Robert Lison; Matthew Lopez; William Lynch; Barry Maham; Michael Marks; Charles Martin; James Masiello; Paul Masiello; Glenn Mason; Corey Matthews; Thomas Mayhew; Steven McFarland; Roger McGehee; Richard McKinney, Jr.; Kerwin McNamara; Francis Mensah; Mark Menton; Joseph Merritt, Jr.; Stephen Miller; Robert Mohler; Jeffrey Mongold; Donald Montague; Brian Moravitz; John Morris; Richard Moxley; John Niemiec; Bryan Nix, Jr.; Steven Norris; Stephen O'brien; Milton Painter; Jospeh Palau, III; Dennis Passmore; Gary Pemberton; John Peters; Dallas Phillips; Ralph Pisani; Charles Pullen; E. Martin Ranck, III; Barry Rathbone; John Richter; Natalie Robb; Ronnie Rodriguez; Matthew Ryan; William Schellhammer, III; Mark Schroeder; David Schwarzmann; Michael Sease, II; David Sellers; Daniel Shaw; Richard Smith; Scott Smith; Michael Snapp; James A. Sobota; James Sticklen; Rex Strickland; Cheri Stroup; Ronald Sydnor; Kendall Thompson; Lorenzo Thrower; Christopher Tilles; David Tobin; Jeffrey Tolle; Glenn Tschann; William Vannoy; Donald Vaught; Jack Walmer, Jr.; John Walser; Thomas Wealand; Oscar Wells; Wayne Wentzel; Michael Whetsell; Paul White; Kenneth Wildman; Jerome Williams; Marcus Williams; Elton Wright; Richard Lancing, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Gary Dize, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, VA, Defendant-Appellee. United States Department of Labor, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 21, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Molly A. Elkin , Woodley & McGillivary, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Sona Rewari , Hunton & Williams LLP, McLean, Virginia, for Appellee. Sarah Kay Marcus , United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae. ON BRIEF: Evangeline C. Paschal , Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. M. Patricia Smith , Solicitor of Labor, Jennifer S. Brand , Associate Solicitor, Paul L. Frieden , Counsel for Appellate Litigation, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge Harris wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge Traxler and Judge Thacker joined.


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