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JOSEPH v. OKEELANTA CORP.

Nos. 93-1389, 93-1390.

656 So.2d 1316 (1995)

Venant JOSEPH, Stafford Anderson, Hopeton Blake, Clinton Brown, Clive Brown, Oral Bryan, John Cordice, Cuthbert Duncan, Laury Gayle, Noel Henry, Mario Hutchinson, Paulus Lewis, Harrington Palache, Winston Pryce, Lebert Thompson and Alva Williams, Appellants, v. OKEELANTA CORPORATION, Appellee. Victor BROWN, Basil Phillips and Reynold Sayers, Appellants, v. ATLANTIC SUGAR ASSOCIATION, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearings and Clarifications Denied July 11, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory S. Schell of Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc., Belle Glade, for appellants.

Elizabeth J. Du Fresne and Mark R. Cheskin of Steel Hector & Davis, Miami, for appellees Okeelanta Corp. and Atlantic Sugar Ass'n.

DELL, Chief Judge.

These consolidated appeals involve separate class actions concerning nineteen West Indian workers who sued appellee Okeelanta Corporation (Okeelanta) and three West Indian workers who sued Atlantic Sugar Corporation (Atlantic) for breach of an employment contract. Both appellees employed the West Indian workers to harvest sugar cane during the October 1988 through April 1989 harvest season. The lawsuits, although filed separately, proceeded contemporaneously...

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