the Eastern District of Missouri had held, without discussion, that the FLSA does not provide for punitive damages in retaliation cases. Waldermeyer v. ITT Consumer Fin. Corp., 782 F.Supp. 86, 88 (E.D.Mo.1991). On the other hand, the Western District of Missouri followed the Seventh Circuit in one case decided before Snapp, O’Brien v. Dekalb-Clinton Counties Ambulance Dist., 1996 WL 565817, at *6 (W.D.Mo. June 24, 1996) (“In the absence of conflicting interpretation of the amended section 16(b) by another circuit, the court is persuaded to follow the Seventh Circuit’s reasoning and hold that compensatory and punitive damages are available for violation of the FLSA’s anti-retaliation provision.”). See also Johnston v. Davis Security, Inc., 217 F.Supp.2d 1224, 1230-31 (D.Utah 2002) (<HOLDING>); Lanza v. Sugarland Run Homemmers Ass’n, Inc.,
holding that punitive damages are recoverable in a claim for retaliation under the flsa holding that punitive damages are not recoverable under viwda holding that punitive damages are not recoverable under subsection 216b holding that punitive damages are not recoverable against municipalities under  1988 holding punitive damages not recoverable under 2715