advantage of lower individual costs to vindicate rights by the pooling of resources. The judicial system benefits by efficient resolution in one proceeding of common issues of law and fact arising from the same alleged ... activity”). When a plaintiff seeks certification to bring a collective action on behalf of others and asks the court to approve a notice to potential plaintiffs, the court has discretion to approve the collective action and facilitate notice to potential plaintiffs. Sperling, 110 S.Ct. at 487 (ADEA action); Villatoro v. Kim Son Restaurant, L.P., 286 F.Supp.2d 807, 809 (S.D.Tex.2003) (FLSA action). The court also has discretion to modify the proposed class definition if it is overly broad. See Baldridge v. SBC Communications, Inc., 404 F.3d 930, 931-32 (5th Cir.2005) (<HOLDING>). See also Heeg v. Adams Harris, Inc., 907
recognizing cause of action recognizing that state courts may be able to limit the retroactive effect of their declarations of state law recognizing the cause of action recognizing the courts powr er to limit the scope of a proposed flsa action holding that courts of appeals should review the facts necessary to determine whether an exemption to the flsa applies in a particular under the clearly erroneous standard