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Phillip Adkins; George N. Boyd; James M. Ferrell; Curtise. Hickle; James G. Turner, Plaintiffs-appellees,andwade A. Adkins; Forrest R. Adkins, Jr.; David G. Ball;james O. Barr; Bill R. Barrett; James W. Batten; Daniellel. Bauer; Jerry L. Beckett; Terry L. Berry; Marshall P.blain, Jr.; Roger A. Blake; Gary E. Carroll; Walter N.carroll; Jimmy L. Carver; Stephen R. Childers; Claudecremeans, Jr.; Gary L. Crossen; Danny S. Cutler; Admirald. Davis; Rodney D. Davis; Larry A. Diamond; Mark S.doss; Roger A. Earl; Stephen D. Earl; Carl L. Eastham;timothy A. Gibbs; James A. Hanshaw; Jimmie D. Hardy;harry T. Hart; Maurice F. Hartz; Robert A. Herbert;thomas I. Hosey; Kendall G. James; Gary L. Johnson; Garryd. Koontz; Matthew E. Layne; Jimmie L. Lemon; Donald P.lewis; Harold L. Marcum; William Marcum; Herschel E.marshall; James L. Mccaw; Karl T. Mcdermott; Boyd E.mellert; Paul F. Mellert; Richard A. Miller; Roger L.mitchell; Charles E. Nease; James E. Nelson; Ira Noble;charles D. Penvose; Timothy S. Provaznik; Gordan K. Pyles;freddie H. Ramey; Robert R. Ratcliff; Wayne J. Richman;david A. Riggs; Michael S. Ross; John R. Sang; Perry W.sarver; Keith M. Scheibelhood; Robert G. Showalter;william L. Shrader; Cecil Simmons; James R. Smith; Rodneym. Stacy; Denton S. Stark; Tom M. Stull; Allen E. Taylor;paul R. Thacker; Roger D. Ward; W. M. Jackson Watts;allen L. Wilcox; Robert L. Wiles; Scott E. Wilson; Stevej. Wilson; Bret A. Woodall; Buddy R. Wren; Robert L.young; George I. Bicker; Robert L. Marcum; Stanley E.masters; Lanny L. Adkins; Virgil v. Adkins; John Davis;ira J. Earls; Franklin R. Fowler; Daniel E. Holland; Earlf. Legg; Kay A. Perego; Jerry A. Sheets; Charles L.shumaker, Ii; Thomas K. Simpkins; Eugene M. Wheeler;claude Ray Cremeans, Jr.; William D. Martin; Jerry Doss, Plaintiffs, v. City of Huntington, West Virginia, a Municipal Corporation,defendant-appellant
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. - 27 F.3d 110
Argued May 6, 1993.Decided June 21, 1994
ARGUED: Scott Allen Damron, Vinson, Meek, Pettit & Colburn, L.C., Huntington, WV, for appellants.
John Frederick Cyrus, Gardner & Cyrus, Huntington, WV, for appellees.
ON BRIEF: Charles W. Peoples, Jr., Huntington, WV, for appellees.
Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and CLARKE, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.
Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge RUSSELL wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Senior Judge CLARKE joined.
RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
Firefighters in the City of Huntington, West Virginia (the City), filed this action alleging that the City's payment system had violated the overtime pay provisions of both the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. Sec. 207, and West Virginia, W.Va.Code Sec. 21-5C-3(a) (1989). The district court agreed that the City's payment system had violated both provisions; it calculated the firefighters' damages under the West Virginia provision because that provision's overtime pay requirements are more stringent than FLSA's.
The City appealed, conceding that it had violated FLSA, but arguing that the district court erred in finding that it also violated the West Virginia overtime pay provision. It contended, inter alia, that the West Virginia provision, W.Va.Code Sec. 21-5C-3(a), did not apply to it because it qualified for the exception from that provision contained in W.Va.Code Sec. 21-5C-1(e) (1989). It asked, therefore, that we reverse the district court's judgment and remand for the district court to calculate the firefighters' damages under the less stringent overtime pay provisions of FLSA.
We determined that the City's contention presented an unsettled question of West Virginia law and certified that question to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. That Court, in Adkins v. City of Huntington, --- W.Va. ----, 445 S.E.2d 500 (W.Va.1994), concluded that the City did qualify for the exception contained in W.Va.Code Sec. 21-5C-1(e) and, therefore, was not subject to the overtime pay requirements of W.Va.Code Sec. 21-5C-3(a).
Accordingly, we reverse the district court's judgment, under which the firefighters' damages were calculated under W.Va.Code Sec. 21-5C-3(a), and we remand for the district court to calculate the firefighters' damages under FLSA.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.