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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Gold River Operating Corporation

2:04-cv-01349 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2004

Closed Date: 2011

In September 2004, the Los Angeles District Office of the EEOC filed suit against Casino Columbia Sussex Corporation and Gold River Operating Corporation, both of whom were doing business as River Palms Resort, a casino/resort in Laughlin, Nevada. According to the complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, the casino subjected female employees to sexual harassment, violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and attempted to force out the older female employe…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. School City of Hammond

2:05-cv-00029 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2005

Closed Date: 2005

On January 24, 2005, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), on behalf of female social workers, filed a lawsuit in the Northern District Court of Indiana, under the Equal Pay Act as incorporated into the Fair Labor Standards Act, against School City of Hammond. The EEOC sought injunctive relief, compensatory damages, liquidated damages, and other forms of affirmative relief, claiming that the defendant paid its female social workers at a rate less than that paid to similarly sit…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB

91-26630 | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 1991

Closed Date: 2002

In this case, Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that federal immigration law prohibited awarding undocumented immigrant workers back pay under the National Labor Relations Act.This case arose when Hoffman Plastic Compounds fired José Castro and others for union activities in 1989. During a series of administrative proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), it was determined that Castro was an undocumented immigrant who had used fake pape…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Montoya v. SCCP Painting Contractors, Inc.

1:07-cv-00455 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2007

Closed Date: March 19, 2009

On February 21, 2007, employees of S.C.C.P Painting Contractors Inc. filed this class action lawsuit against it under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219), the Maryland Wage and Hour Law, the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, the D.C. Minimum Wage Law, the D.C. payment and Collection of Wages Law, and the Maryland and District of Columbia Common Law in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Plaintiffs alleged that S.C.C.P. (1) failed to pay wages for work p…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

2:03-cv-05309 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2003

Closed Date: 2011

On November 10, 2003, a group of 17 undocumented immigrant workers, who provided janitorial services at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq.; the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§201 et seq.; and conspiracy to violate civil rights under 42 U.S.C. §1985(3). Plaint…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Escobar v. Baker

3:92-cv-05016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 1992

Closed Date: 1993

On January 16, 1992, migrant agricultural workers of Mexican descent filed a lawsuit against farm owner employers in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, alleging violations of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 1801, et seq. and Washington State Farm Labor Contractor Act, RCW 49.48.010. Plaintiffs claimed that they were fired by farm owners because they sought legal advice from attorneys from Oregon Legal Services as to their…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Liu v. Donna Karan International, Inc.

1:00-cv-04221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 7, 2000

Closed Date: 2007

On June 7, 2000, a group of Chinese immigrant garment workers filed a lawsuit against their employers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b) and the New York Minimum Wage Act, N.Y. Lab. Law § 650 et seq. Plaintiffs, who were represented by attorneys for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, alleged that they worked 80 hour, were paid below minimum wage and were not paid overtime. Th…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Martinez v. Mecca Farms, Inc.

9:01-cv-09096 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2001

Closed Date: 2003

On December 20, 2001, the Florida Legal Services Inc. Migrant Farmworker Justice Project filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrant farm workers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleging violations of Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act at Florida tomato and chili pepper packing houses. The workers alleged that they were not paid overtime wages, employee Social Security taxes were deducted from their wages were never paid to the govern…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
WJA Realty Limited Partnership v. Nelson

1:88-cv-00810 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 6, 1988

On May 6, 1988, the World Jai Alai Association Reality Limited Partnership (WJA) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's suspension of work authorizations of Jai Alai players. The suspensions were pursuant to INS regulation 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(14)(iv) which allowed the suspension of employees holding H-1 visas in the event of a labor strike, provided that the Department of Labor certified that the strike…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Perez-Perez v. Progressive Forestry Services, Inc.

3:98-cv-01474 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 2002

In 2000, four migrant reforestation workers, an Oregon labor organization, and one of its members filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court District for the District of Oregon, seeking redress for migrant reforestation workers recruited and employed by farm/forestry labor contractors in Oregon. Plaintiffs alleged that in 1996, defendants recruited and hired workers from Mexico to work in Oregon and in doing so violated the Agricultural Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protection Act, …