Even after a Texas federal judge blocked the Obama administration’s update to overtime pay regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act, plaintiffs lawyers at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll and Outten & Golden weren’t deterred from suing Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. in New Jersey for allegedly violating the overtime rule.
But the attempt to test the scope of an injunction against the overtime rule hasn’t worked out as the employment lawyers might have hoped. On Monday, they were held in contempt and ordered to withdraw their lawsuit against Chipotle.
