( January 8, 2026, 4:20 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Jan. 7 response to a petition for a writ of certiorari cross-filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, four former Cracker Barrel employees contend that the restaurant’s question regarding the standard for federal district courts to authorize and facilitate notices to nonparties on behalf of plaintiffs when joining a lawsuit as a collective pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lacks merit and “seeks review of an issue that was neither pressed nor passed upon” at the appellate level, while Cracker Barrel states in a response filed days earlier to the employees’ petition that the workers’ similar question “does not present an issue justifying this court’s review.”...