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OCHOA v. J.B. MARTIN AND SONS FARMS, INC.

No. 00-16290.

287 F.3d 1182 (2002)

Ernesto OCHOA; Pedro Bautista-Botello; Federico Guzman-Delgado; Emigdio Gutierrez-Godinez; Enrique Medina; Masedonio Miranda-Corona; Rosalio Valdez; Jose Vargas; Jose Cano-Varela; Miguel Aguayo-Arvayo; Manuel Cebreros; Remedios Chavez-Zamorano; Rodolfo Suchil-Fonseca; Rosario Tello-Fabian; Modesto Coronado-Ramirez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Florencio Carrillo-Valle; Jose Herrera-Herrera, Plaintiffs, v. J.B. MARTIN AND SONS FARMS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 26, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen E. Tamburro, George McKay and Pamela Bridge, Community Legal Services, Programa Campesino, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Frank A. Aloi, Rochester, NY, for the defendant-appellee.

Cynthia L. Rice, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Mauricio Dominguez, urging reversal.

John J. Rademacher, Park Ridge, IL, and Elizabeth Croron Dribusch, Glenmont, NY, for Amici Curiae American Farm Bureau Federation, and New York Farm Bureau, Inc., urging affirmance.

Before NOONAN, HAWKINS, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellants are 15 migrant farm workers who reside in Arizona who sued Defendant Appellee J.B. Martin and Sons Farms, Inc. ("Martin Farms"), for claims arising under the Agricultural Worker Protection Act ("AWPA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872 (1999), and Arizona state law. The district court dismissed the action for lack of personal jurisdiction over Martin Farms. Appellants timely appealed, contending that...

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