Bloomberg Law
May 15, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

Email Bungle Earns Law Firm Extra Work in Bojangles’ Wage Case

Porter Wells
Porter Wells
Reporter

The law firm representing a group of Bojangles’ Inc. workers in an unpaid overtime lawsuit has been ordered to produce a slew of documents after sending more than 1,000 unauthorized emails to potential opt-in plaintiffs for the suit.

Notices to potential plaintiffs of collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act are closely monitored by the courts handling the cases. The follow-up emails in this case, sent by a legal assistant and marked “high importance,” hadn’t been approved by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

More than 100 additional plaintiffs opted into the lawsuit after ...

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