RIOS v. MARSHALL

No. 79 Civ. 5711.

530 F.Supp. 351 (1981)

Juan Valderrama RIOS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Secretary of Labor F. Ray MARSHALL, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

November 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mid-Hudson Legal Services, Inc., Farmworker Project, Howard Schell Reilly, Anthony Szczygiel, Newburgh, N.Y., for plaintiffs.

Thomas H. Belote, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y., Charles S. Fax, Chapman, Duff & Paul, Washington, D.C., Joseph Kevin McKay, Hays, St. John, Abramson & Heilbron, New York City, Gretchen CollMarti, Puerto Rico Legal Services, Migrant Div., Rio Piedras, P.R., Kenneth Hart, Jr., State of Florida Dept. of Labor & Employment Sec., Tallahassee, Fla., Jeffrey Slonin, Asst. Atty. Gen., N.Y.S. Dept. of Law, New York City, S. Steven Karalekas, Thomas J. Bacas, Charles, Karalekas & Bacas, Washington, D.C., John Witmeyer, Charles Booth, Ford, Marrin, Esposito & Witmeyer, New York City, Daniel Sullivan, Murray, Hollander & Sullivan, New York City, Morris Kletzkin, Friedlander, Misler, Friedlander Sloan & Herz, Washington, D.C., Chales Kelso, Ann Margaret Pointer, Fisher & Phillips, Atlanta, Ga., Sanford A. Bell, Teitler & Teitler, New York City, for defendants.


OPINION

GAGLIARDI, District Judge.

This action was commenced by thirty-eight migrant farmworkers, individually and on behalf of a class of all migrant farmworkers who are citizens of the United States and who from 1975 to 1979 worked or sought to work in the annual New York apple harvest. The named plaintiffs are Puerto Ricans and southern blacks. They allege that seven New York apple growers and two New York apple growers' cooperatives (the "New York apple...

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