BAYOU LAWN & LANDSCAPE SVCS. v. SECRETARY OF LABOR

No. 12-12462.

713 F.3d 1080 (2013)

BAYOU LAWN & LANDSCAPE SERVICES, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, National Hispanic Landscape Alliance, Silvicultural Management Associates, Inc., Professional Landcare Network, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SECRETARY OF LABOR, Jane Oates, Defendants-Appellants, Pineros Y Campesinos Unidos Del Noroeste, Comite De Apoyo A Los Trabajadores, Jahemel Abuleche, Romulo Abuleche, Deborah Santana, Maria Ramirez Hernandez, Intervenor Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 1, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Phillip Charrow , Laura Metcoff Klaus , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wendel Vincent Hall , Monte B. Lake , CJ Lake LLC, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Geoffrey Forney , U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL-Dist. Court Section, Glenn Matthew Girdharry , U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div.-OIL, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

D. Michael Dale , Northwest Workers' Justice Project, Portland, OR, for Jeff Merkley, et al., Amicus Curiae.

Richard G. McCracken , Yuval M. Miller , Davis Cowell Bowe , San Francisco, CA, for Unite Here Intern. Union, Amicus Curiae.

Kristi Lee Graunke , Michelle Lapointe , Southern Poverty Law Ctr., Atlanta, GA, Rosa Erandi Zamora Gutierrez , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Gregory Scott Schell , Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, Lake Worth, FL, Meredith Blake Stewart , Southern Poverty Law Ctr., New Orleans, LA, for Pineros Y Campesinos Unidos Del Noroeste, Comite De Apoyo A Los Trabajadores, Jahemel Abuleche, Romulo Abuleche, Deborah Santana, and Maria Ramirez Hernandez, Amici Curiae.

Sarah Rempel Claassen , Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Baltimore, MI), for Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Before WILSON and HILL, Circuit Judges, and HUCK, District Judge.


HILL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs in this case challenge certain rules issued by the Department of Labor governing the employment of temporary, non-agricultural foreign workers, asserting that the Department of Labor had no authority to issue these rules. The district court agreed and granted plaintiffs a preliminary injunction prohibiting the enforcement of the rules during the pendency of this action. The Department of Labor...

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