Mealey's (February 22, 2019, 9:52 AM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois federal judge on Feb. 20 conditionally certified a collective of Jimmy John’s franchisees’ assistant store managers in a lawsuit alleging that they were misclassified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and equitably tolled the statute of limitations during the time an anti-suit injunction was in place (Brittany Michelle Watt, et al. v. Fox Restaurant Venture, LLC, et al., No. 17-2104, C.D. Ill., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26959)....