Welcome to the Sears Technician Lawsuit Website.  This website, created by the law firms of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP and Schneider & Wallace, provides information on the collective action lawsuit, Lenahan, et al. v. Sears Roebuck and Co., Court File No. 02-00045/MLC, filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on January 2, 2002, by current and former product repair service technicians employed by Sears.  This lawsuit specifically challenges Sears' "Home Dispatch Program."  Sears is one of the country’s leading retailers of apparel, home and automotive products and services, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion.  This website is designed to provide potential collective members and other interested parties with information about the lawsuit and its progress, as well as a means to assist plaintiffs’ counsel in prosecuting the lawsuit on their behalf.

            The Complaint alleges Sears' systematic failure to pay its product repair service technicians for all hours worked under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  The lawsuit seeks payment of the wages earned, as well as double damages and other relief, on behalf of the plaintiffs and potential collective members who join in the lawsuit.  All former and current product repair service technicians who are or will be employed by Sears during the period NOVEMBER 15, 2001 to THE PRESENT who have not been compensated for all work performed may be eligible to seek to join in the lawsuit if it is approved as a collective action.