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Jesse and Laurie worked for a company that provided warehouse staff to Amazon.com throughout the United States. Their primary duties were retrieving products from shelves and packaging the products for delivery to Amazon customers. When their shifts were done, Jesse and Laurie — and all other warehouse employees—were required to remove their belts, wallets, and keys and pass through metal detectors.

Jesse and Laurie sued the staffing company, alleging that the time spent waiting in line for screening, removing personal articles, and passing through the screening process was compensable time. The judge in federal district court found that the screenings were not an integral and indispensable part of Jesse and Laurie's principal work activities, and thus the time was not compensable. The appeals court disagreed, holding that post-shift activities are integral and indispensable to the employees' primary activities if they are necessary for the principal work performed and done for the benefit of the employer.

The staffing company appealed to the Supreme Court, on which you serve as a justice. How would you decide the case? Is the time compensable or not?⁶