FIVE MIGRANT FARMWORKERS v. HOFFMAN


136 N.J. Super. 242 (1975)

345 A.2d 378

FIVE MIGRANT FARMWORKERS, ON BEHALF OF THEMSELVES AND ALL OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED, PLAINTIFFS, v. JOSEPH HOFFMAN, IN HIS CAPACITY AS COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY; THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY; MARIO GOMES, IN HIS CAPACITY AS CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF MIGRANT LABOR; BUREAU OF MIGRANT LABOR, AND SAMUEL STERN & SONS, INC., A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION; DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.

August 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Michael S. Berger, for plaintiffs (Camden Regional Legal Services, Inc., attorney).

Ms. Miriam Daniel Guido for plaintiffs, pro hac vice.

Mr. Michael S. Bokar, Deputy Attorney General, for defendants Hoffman and Gomes (Mr. William F. Hyland, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Mr. Jeffrey Doranz for United States Department of Labor as amicus curiae.


HORN, A.J.S.C.

Defendants Hoffman and Gomes, in their respective governmental capacities, move for a dismissal of this in lieu action or for summary judgment. The corporate defendant, Samuel Stern & Sons, Inc., has been dropped from the case by consent of plaintiffs.

The action, brought and permitted to proceed as a class action for "Five Migrant Farmworkers and all others similarly situated," alleges essentially that there are approximately 1,000 migrant...

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