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Farm Labor Organizing Committee v. Roy Cooper

1:17-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and several private parties filed this action November 15, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. They named North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Administrative Office of the Courts Director Marion R. Warren as defendants. The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a private practitioner served as plaintiffs’ counsel. At issue was a North Carolina state law which limited the ability of farmworkers to or…
LABOR RIGHTS
Associated Builders and Contractors of Southest Texas v. Rung

1:16-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2017

This case addressed President Obama's Executive Order 13673, “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces,” under which the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Council required government contractors and subcontractors to report regularly on workplace law violations found by administrative agencies, the courts, and arbitrators. The Order explained that the federal government would take an employer’s record of violations into account when deciding whether to award future contracts, cancel existing …
LABOR RIGHTS
Walsh v. Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.

4:22-cv-03246 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

Martin Walsh filed suit in his official capacity as the Secretary of Labor for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) against Packers Sanitation Services, one of the largest food safety companies in the U.S., in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on November 9, 2022. DOL alleged that Packers illegally employed more than two dozen children, ranging in age from 13 to 17, in meatpacking plants in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. DOL also filed a motion for a Temporary Restr…
LABOR RIGHTS
Gomez v. GEO Group

1:22-cv-00868 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 13, 2022, nine plaintiffs detained in one of GEO's facilities filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the GEO Group, a private prison corporation contracted by the federal government to detain immigrants. Plaintiffs filed suit to stop violations of California's labor laws, including minimum wage provisions, and forced labor in violation of state and federal laws. Plaintiffs alleged that GEO violated the California Minimum Wage Law, Unfair Com…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: May 8, 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621, against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, claimin…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Chen v. Western Digital Corporation

8:19-cv-00909 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 14, 2019, a female employee of Western Digital Corporation filed this class-action lawsuit in the Central District of California. The plaintiff, on behalf of herself and approximately 1,370 female employees, sued Western Digital Corporation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state law. Western Digital, the defendant, is a major computer data storage company. The plaintiff, represented by private plaintiff firms, sought in…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Morgan v. U.S. Soccer Federation

2:19-cv-01717 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 8, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Women’s National Soccer Team (WNT) suing the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) for gender discrimination. On March 8, 2019, members of the WNT filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the USSF under the Equal Pay Act (EPA), 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) et seq., and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. Represented by Winston & Strawn LLP, the plaintiffs sought damages…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ndambi v. CoreCivic

1:18-cv-03521 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

Closed Date: April 12, 2021

On November 14, 2018, immigrants detained at the Cibola County Correctional Center filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. (Although the facility in question is located in New Mexico, the operator was organized as a Maryland corporation.) They sued the operator of the facility, CoreCivic, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219), the New Mexico Minimum Wage Act, and the common law doctrine of unjust enrichment. The suit …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Reed v. Pitts Farms Partnership

4:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 8, 2021, six Black American farm workers sued their employer, Pitts Farms Partnership in the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Plaintiffs were represented by the Mississippi Center for Justice and Southern Migrant Legal Services. Pitts Farms hired white South African workers through a visa program sponsored by the U.S. federal government allowing foreign agricultural workers to be employed in the United States, so long as the employer treated foreign and d…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez v. Todd Greiner Farms Packing

1:21-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs, two farm workers, filed this class action case against a Michigan produce producer in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on April 20, 2021. Represented by attorneys from the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center and the Sugar Law Center, they alleged that their employer violated the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA) (29 U.S.C. § 1801, et seq) and Michigan state law. According to the plaintiffs, their bosses forced them to work long h…