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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez-Echeverria v. Purpose Point Harvesting, LLC

1:22-cv-00314 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Closed Date: June 12, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On March 31, 2022, a group of migrant agricultural workers in Michigan filed a class action lawsuit against their employer, Purpose Point, who had hired them to perform agricultural labor in Michigan through the H‐2a program. Plaintiffs allege that defendants acted together to charge plaintiffs illegal recruitment fees, confiscated travel documents when Plaintiffs arrived in the United States, and paid Plaintiffs less than the contract wag…

Judgment for Plaintiff

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zavala Martinez v. Manzana, LLC

3:24-cv-01900 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2024

[This summary is temporary while we research this case.] Plaintiffs allege that Defendants, including Manzana, LLC, have long operated a farm labor contractor business that takes unfair advantage of the H-2A temporary worker program to traffic and exploit migrant workers from Mexico for their own financial gain. In this suit, filed December 2, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, Plaintiffs allege that instead of providing adequately-paid jobs as required by law, Def…

Case Is Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Chen v. GEO

3:17-cv-05769 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

On September 26, 2017, a former immigrant detainee of the Northwest Detention Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan. The plaintiff sued The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), the for-profit corporation that operated the detention center, under state law, claiming that GEO’s policy of paying immigrant detainees involved in the federal Voluntary Work Program only $1 per day for their labor violated the Washi…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Washington v. The GEO Group Inc.

3:17-cv-05806 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2017

This case addressed whether a Washington State minimum wage law applied to immigration detainees. The state of Washington filed suit in the Pierce County Superior Court on September 20, 2017. The defendant was the GEO Group, Inc., a for-profit corporation that operated the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). Washington alleged two causes of action. First, they claimed defendant’s policy of paying immigrant detainees only $1 per day violated the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA), which set the mi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Casilao v. Hotelmacher LLC

5:17-cv-00800 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: July 26, 2017

This case challenged the legality of a scheme to recruit Filipino nationals to work in the United States under an H-2B visa. On July 26, 2017, three Filipino nationals recruited to work in the United States filed a class-action lawsuit against the owners of Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) operating various hospitality, restaurant, and entertainment venues in Oklahoma. Plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Oklahoma, Legal Aid, and the Equal Justice Center. The suit was filed in the Unite…

Case Is Ongoing

JAIL CONDITIONS
Ruelas v. County of Alameda

4:19-cv-07637 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

This lawsuit concerns individuals incarcerated in Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, CA, who were allegedly forced to provide uncompensated labor for Aramark Correctional Services, LLC. When this suit was filed, Santa Rita Jail held individuals awaiting trial, individuals convicted of a crime awaiting sentencing, individuals in immigration detention, and individuals convicted of crimes serving county jail or state prison sentences. At the time of the lawsuit’s filing, Aramark Correctional Servi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Yeend v. Akima Global Services, LLC

1:20-cv-01281 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

This case challenged the compensation scheme for labor that inmates offered while detained at the Buffalo Federal Detention Center (the Center) in Batavia, New York – an immigration civil detention facility. On September 29, 2020, two adults previously detained at the Center, and represented by the Worker Justice Center of New York, filed a lawsuit against Akima Global Services, LLC (AGS), the owner of the Center. The case was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District …

Case Is Ongoing

LABOR RIGHTS
Spillman v. Salvation Army

CGC-21-591364 | California state trial court

Filed Date: May 7, 2021

This case is a class action brought by participants in a California drug and alcohol rehabilitation program operated by the Salvation Army, the defendant in this case. The plaintiffs filed this action in the Superior Court of the State of California in the County of San Francisco on May 7, 2021. They bring their claims under several provisions of the California Labor Code. The case was initially assigned to Judge Anne-Christine Massullo but was eventually reassigned to Judge Ethan P. Schulman a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lilgerose v. Polis

2022-cv-30421 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

This case was filed on February 15, 2022, by two people incarcerated at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Colorado as a putative class action against the Governor of Colorado, the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC), and the CDOC executive director. The plaintiffs alleged that a CDOC policy of charging incarcerated people with a violation (which could result in loss of good time credits and more restrictive housing placements) for refusing prison-assigned jobs violated an amendment to …