Know Your Judge: Robert Gary Klausner

This week in Know Your Judge, we feature Judge Robert Gary Klausner of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

President George W. Bush appointed Klausner, commonly known as R. Gary Klausner, in 2002.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with an opinion Klausner issued five years ago involving overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In 2013, Klausner dismissed a lawsuit by service advisers at a California Mercedes-Benz dealership who sought to recover overtime pay under the FLSA. Klausner found that the workers fell within the federal wage law’s exemption for salesmen, partsmen, ...