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FARMERS BROS. COFFEE v. WCAB

No. B180839.

35 Cal.Rptr.3d 23 (2005)

133 Cal.App.4th 533

FARMERS BROTHERS COFFEE, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and Rafael Ruiz, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

October 17, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Dennis J. Hershewe and Dennis J. Hershewe for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

Law Offices of William W. Tiffany and G. Martin Jacobs for Respondent Rafael Ruiz.

Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, James C. Harrison, Margaret R. Prinzing and Kari Krogseng, San Francisco, for California Applicant Attorney's Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

HASTINGS, J.

BACKGROUND

We issued a writ of review on April 4, 2005, with regard to two workers' compensation matters and consolidated them for argument and decision. Each petition contends that the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), title 8 United States Code section 1101 et seq., preempts Labor Code section 1171.5, which provides that immigration status is irrelevant to the issue of liability under state labor and employment laws, and Labor...

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