Until Cheeks, if a wage-and-hour case was settled at a conference before one of the district courts within the Second Circuit, the parties could finalize a written settlement agreement and simply ...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed a plaintiff’s appeal of the trial court’s order compelling arbitration on the grounds that the order was a non-appealable interlocutory order ...

Now, around 18 months later, we know more about navigating Cheeks and what settlement terms will generally pass muster. With wage and hour litigation comprising an ever-larger proportion of the ...