IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez

IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 3, 2005 Decided November 8, 2005
Full case name	IBP, Inc., Petitioner v. Gabriel Alvarez, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, et al.
Citations	546 U.S. 21 (more) 126 S. Ct. 514; 163 L. Ed. 2d 288
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Alvarez v. IBP, Inc., 339 F.3d 894 (9th Cir. 2003); cert. granted, 543 U.S. 1144 (2005).
Holding
Time respondents spend walking between changing and production areas is compensable under the FLSA.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Stevens, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez, 546 U.S. 21 (2005), is a US labor law case of the a United States Supreme Court, interpreting the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938, as amended by the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947.