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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
De Leon-Granados v. Eller And Sons Trees, Inc.

1:05-cv-01473 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 5, 2005

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2012

On June 5, 2005, attorneys with the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of over 1500 migrant workers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against their former employer, Eller and Sons Trees, Inc. Plaintiffs, who were from Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, were admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B temporary farm worker program. The plaint…
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…
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
Salinas-Rodriguez v. Alpha Services, Inc.

3:05-cv-00440 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 18, 2005

Closed Date: May 19, 2008

On July 18, 2005, a group of migrant forestry workers admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B foreign worker program filed suit against their employer Alpha Services, L.L.C., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1871). The plaintiffs alleged that Alpha and its officers failed to pay the plaintiffs the statutor…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hugo Martin Recinos-Recinos v. Express Forestry Inc.

2:05-cv-01355 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2005

Closed Date: 2007

On April 7, 2005, attorneys with the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of over 300 predominantly Guatemalan and Mexican migrant workers, admitted to work in the U.S. pursuant to H-2B temporary foreign worker visa program, who planted trees and performed other forestry-related activities for Express Forestry Inc. Plainti…
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
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, …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Carranza v. Mecca Farms, Inc.

9:01-cv-09013 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 2001

Closed Date: 2003

On November 19, 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 the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219, and the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, 26 U.S.C. §§ 3101-3128. Plaintiffs were field workers that planted, cultivat…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Luna v. Del Monte Fresh Produce

1:06-cv-02000 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 20, 2006

Closed Date: May 21, 2010

On April 20, 2006, four migrant and seasonal agricultural laborers who worked for Del Monte Fresh Produce's Georgia farms at various times during the 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 harvest seasons filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219 and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1871. The class action lawsuit was filed against Del Monte Fresh Product…