Auer v. Robbins
- Decided
- February 19, 1997
- Docket
- 95-897
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 2,686 timesSuperseded by statute (verified)Possible negative treatment: superseded by statute (1 of 2 verified; none is a verified overruling) · Roseanne Cronin v. United States Postal Service
What later courts said
- holding that an agency’s interpretation of its own regulations is “controlling unless plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation” (citation and quotation marks excluded) — En Hui Huang v. Attorney General of the United States (2010)
- concluding that an agency interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation is controlling unless the interpretation is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation — Orion Flight Services, Inc. v. Basler Flight Service (2006)
- holding that the Secretary’s interpretation of his own regulation is “controlling unless plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation” — Robert Beck v. City of Cleveland, Ohio (2004)
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How the opinion begins
[*454] Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 52 Stat. 1060, as amended, 29 U. S. C. §§201 et seq., exempts “bona fide executive, administrative, or professional” employees from overtime pay requirements. This case presents the question whether the Secretary of Labor’s “salary-basis” test for determining an employee’s exempt status reflects a permissible reading of the statute as it applies to public-sector employees. We also consider whether the Secretary has reasonably interpreted the salary-basis test to deny an [*455] employee salaried status (and thus grant him overtime pay) when his compensation may “as a practical matter” be adjusted in ways inconsistent with the test.
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Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997)Read the full opinion
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