Donnie Wittman v. Olin Winchester, LLC: Date Argued: January 30th, 2026; Docket Number: 25-1726

Case Summary:Donnie Wittman v. Olin Winchester, LLC is a wage‑and‑hour appeal in which several current supervisory employees sue Olin Winchester, LLC for unpaid overtime at its East Alton, Illinois facility, now before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit under docket number 25‑1726, with oral argument held on January 30, 2026.At the district court level (Southern District of Illinois, No. 3:22‑cv‑00966‑SMY), the plaintiffs alleged that, as supervisors, they routinely worked more than 40 hours per week, were scheduled for at least nine hours per shift, and were required to work one unpaid hour each day during which they still performed job duties.They claimed that Winchester instructed them not to record this unpaid hour on their time sheets, thereby denying them overtime compensation, and asserted statutory claims under the Illinois Minimum Wage Law along with related Illinois wage and common‑law theories; Judge Staci Yandle ultimately granted summary judgment in favor of Olin Winchester and denied the plaintiffs’ cross‑motion for summary judgment, prompting the present appeal.