Adelaida TORRES-LOPEZ; Guadalupe Montez-Torres; Maria Montez-Torres; Ramon Montez-Torres; Juan Arias-Ayala; Moises Cristobal-Hernandez; Sabino Estrada-Olvera; Rosario Gil-Armenta; Alberto Hernandez-Chavez; Heriberto Hernandez-Perez; Baltazar Pizano-Cadeza; J. Jesus Sanchez-Castaneda; Guillermo Urias-Bero, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Robert MAY; Bear Creek Farms, a partnership; Tee Pee Farms, Inc.; GCP Farms, Inc.; May Farms, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted January 8, 1997.
Decided April 9, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Michael Dale, Oregon Legal Services Corporation, James A. Boon, Oregon Law Center, Inc., Portland, OR, for plaintiffs-appellants.
Arthur E. Schmidt, Oregon Legal Services Corporation, Portland, OR, for Adelaida Torres-Lopez and Sabino Estrada-Olvera.
Paul R.J. Connolly, Donaldson, Albert, Tweet, Connolly, Hanna & Muniz, Salem, OR, attorneys for defendants-appellees.
Mary J. Rieser, United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., for amicus, United States Secretary of Labor.
Bruce Goldstein, Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc., Washington, D.C., for amici, George Miller, William D. Ford, and Howard L. Berman.
John J. Rademacher, American Farm Bureau Federation, Park Ridge, IL, for amici, Farm Bureau Federations.
Rebecca A. Smith, Columbia Legal Services, Olympia, WA; William G. Hoerger, California Rural Legal Assistance, San Francisco, CA; Michael McCarthy, Davies, Roberts & Reid, Seattle, WA, for amici curiae Juan Herrejon, Mauro Madrid, Abel Garcia Lara and the United Farmworkers of America, Washington State Region.
Before: ALDISERT, PREGERSON, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
In their second amended complaint ("complaint"), appellant farmworkers allege that appellees (collectively, "Bear Creek Farms")1 violated the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219; the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act ("AWPA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872; and Oregon labor laws.
The alleged violations include the failure to pay the farmworkers the...
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