TEXARKANA, Ark. – Sixty-one separate lawsuits against Federal Express Corp. were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas on Wednesday, five of them in the court’s Texarkana Division, court records show.
Each case lists a single plaintiff against the shipping company. The Texarkana filings were brought by plaintiffs named Cameron, Mouser, Vallejos, Dunn and King, according to the court’s docket. The other 56 were filed in the El Dorado, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Harrison and Hot Springs divisions, and all 61 have been assigned to U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks in Fayetteville.
One of the Texarkana plaintiffs, Christopher King, says he worked as a delivery driver for FedEx in Miller County but was paid by intermediary companies that FedEx calls “independent service providers,” according to his 15-page complaint, filed Thursday. King says he drove a vehicle weighing less than 10,001 pounds, regularly worked more than 40 hours a week and was never paid overtime. His lawyers are Bradley Manewith and Shannon Liss-Riordan of the Boston firm Lichten & Liss-Riordan…