The Georgia State Patrol was served with a law suit by a former state trooper who said that he and other patrolmen worked sixty-hour weeks but were only compensated for forty-hour weeks.

Richard Andrew Justice claims he is owed $11,957.12 in back pay in the class-action lawsuit. Hundreds of others are due back pay totaling nearly $5 million, the suit states, that according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Justice says that while in trooper-school, cadets were paid for forty-hour weeks but worked at least sixty hours per week.  Justice, who is no longer in law enforcement, was one of the state troopers fired earlier this year as the result of a cheating scandal.

A spokeswoman for the Georgia State Patrol confirmed that the agency was served with the lawsuit last week but could not comment.