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SOLER v. G & U, INC.

Nos. 78 Civ. 6252 (CHT), 78 Civ. 6257 (CHT)-78 Civ. 6261 (CHT), 80 Civ. 3506 (CHT) and 83 Civ. 9122 (CHT).

615 F.Supp. 736 (1985)

Francisco SOLER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. G & U, INC., Charles Gratz, d/b/a Charles Gratz Farm, Defendants. Jann S. FLING, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PEAT-GRO FARMS, INC., Defendant. Pablo LIVAS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BIERSTINE FARMS, INC., Defendant. Gilberto GONZALEZ, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CEDAR VALLEY GROWERS, INC., Defendant. Freddy VALENTIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Raymund MYRUSKI, Defendant. Cecilio ENCARNACION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. W.K.W. FARMS, INC., Defendant. SOLAR, et al., Plaintiffs, v. U.S. SECRETARY OF LABOR, et al., Defendants. G & U, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, et al., Defendants.

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

June 14, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc., Newburgh, N.Y., for plaintiffs; Howard Schell Reilly, of counsel.

Keane & Beane, P.C., White Plains, N.Y., for defendants G & U, Inc., Charles Gratz, Bierstine Farms, Inc., Cedar Valley Growers, Raymond Myruski, and W.K.W. Farms, Inc.; Edward F. Beane, Richard L. O'Rourke, of counsel.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty. S.D. of N.Y., New York City, N.Y., for the Government; Frederick M. Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Atty., Francis X. Lilly, Jay S. Berke, Theodore T. Gotsch, of counsel.

OPINION

TENNEY, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, approximately 100 migrant farmworkers, instituted this action under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. (1982) ("FLSA"), against six farm owners in Orange County, New York ("defendants").1 The plaintiffs seek to recover wage deductions made by the defendants for housing provided to the migrant workers in the defendants' labor camps, during...

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