USTA Aces Misclassification Case before Second Circuit

By Robert S. Whitman and Howard M. Wexler, of Seyfarth Shaw LLP   Earlier this year, the Second Circuit awarded game, set and match to the U.S. Tennis Association in a challenge to the independent contractor status of the tournament’s umpires. In Meyer v. USTA, which we previously wrote about here, the court upheld a District Court’s 2014 ruling that the umpires were properly classified as contractors, not employees, under the FLSA and NY Labor Law.   The plaintiffs in Meyer were u