CASTELLANOS-CONTRERAS v. DECATUR HOTELS, LLC

No. 07-30942.

622 F.3d 393 (2010)

Daniel CASTELLANOS-CONTRERAS; Oscar Ricardo Deheza-Ortega; Rodolfo Antonio Valdez-Baez, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DECATUR HOTELS, LLC; F. Patrick Quinn, III, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 1, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer Jean Rosenbaum (argued), New Orleans Workers' Ctr. for Racial Justice, Legal Dept., Tracie L. Washington , LA Justice Institute, New Orleans, LA, Mary Bauer , Southern Poverty Law Ctr., Immigrant Justice Project, Montgomery, AL, Edward J. Tuddenham , Law Office of Edward Tuddenham, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Leslie W. Ehret , Lit. Counsel, Joseph Nicholas Mole (argued), Suzanne Marie Risey , Frilot, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Ellen Shirer Kovach , Gretna, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Ann Margaret Pointer (argued), John Eugene Thompson , Fisher & Phillips, L.L.P., Atlanta, GA, Keith M. Pyburn, Jr. , Timothy Hugh Scott , Fisher & Phillips, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Amici Curiae: Amelia Island Plantation, Am. Hotel & Lodging Ass'n, Basin Harbor Club, Beaver Run Resort & Conference Ctr., The Broadmoor, Best Western Grand Canyon Squire Inn, Cheyenne Mountain Resort, Florida Fruit & Vegetable Ass'n, Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Ass'n, Homestead Resort, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Mandoki Hospitality Group, Maryland Nursery & Landscape Ass'n, Mid-Atlantic Solutions, Inc., Nat. Council of Agricultural Employers, Ocean Reef Club, The Sagamore, Stein Erickson Lodge and Virginia Agricultural Employers Ass'n.

Catherine K. Ruckelshaus , Nat. Employment Law Project, New York City, for Amici Curiae: Interfaith Worker Justice, New Orleans Workers' Ctr. for Racial Justice and Nat. Employment Law Project.

Diane Arlene Heim (argued), U.S. Dept. of Labor, Office of Sol., Washington, DC, for Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae.

William H. Beardall, Jr. , Sr. Atty., Equal Justice Ctr., Austin, TX, for Equal Justice Ctr., Amicus Curiae.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and KING, JOLLY, DAVIS, SMITH, GARZA, BENAVIDES, STEWART, DENNIS, PRADO, OWEN, ELROD, SOUTHWICK and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.


HAYNES, Circuit Judge, joined by EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge, and E. GRADY JOLLY, JERRY E. SMITH, EMILIO M. GARZA, BENAVIDES, OWEN and LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges, in full; joined by KING, W. EUGENE DAVIS, CARL E. STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges, as to Section III.A. only:

A group of hotel workers present in this country under H-2B visas2 ("the Workers") sued Decatur Hotels and Patrick...

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