In Short The Situation: A district court in the Fifth Circuit granted conditional certification under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") to a class of allegedly misclassified truck drivers, analyzing certification using the widely used and rarely reviewed two-step Lusardi approach. However, the court sua sponte certified its decision for interlocutory appeal given the inconsistencies in how district courts have evaluated collective action treatment under the FLSA. The Result: On review, the Fifth Circuit rejected the two-step Lusardi approach to evaluating collective action certification, holding instead that district courts must "rigorously scrutinize the realm of 'similarly situated' workers … at the outset of the case[.]"