A lower court rejected a motion to intervene by Rusco Operating, L.L.C. and Planning Thru Completion, L.L.C. (the Intervenors) into an FLSA case. In the collective action filed by Joel Fields, a group of individual plaintiffs alleged that Anadarko Petroleum Corporation misclassified them as independent contractors and did not pay the required overtime. Some of those plaintiffs found work with Anadarko through the app created by the Intervenors. The Intervenors asserted that the workers who used their app were independent contractors and subject to the Intervenors’ arbitration agreement. Find out why the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s decision and found the Intervenors showed “adequate interest” in the lawsuit here.