ABDALLAH v. BAIN CAPITAL LLC

No. 13-2008.

752 F.3d 114 (2014)

Murielle ABDALLAH, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. BAIN CAPITAL LLC, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 3, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillippe Jean Joseph Pradal and Timothy K. Cutler , with whom Pradal & Associates, PLLC and Cutler & Wilensky LLP were on brief, for appellant.

David Casey , with whom Christopher B. Kaczmarek and Littler Mendelson, P.C. were on brief, for appellee.

Before THOMPSON, Circuit Judge, SOUTER, Associate Justice, KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.


KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Murielle Abdallah and the members of the class that she seeks to represent worked in a luggage factory in Hénin-Beaumont, France. The factory was owned by Samsonite, which was in turn controlled by an investment group led by Bain Capital, LLC. In 2005, Samsonite sold the factory to a thinly-capitalized third party, HB Group. In early 2007, a French court ordered the liquidation of the factory, costing Abdallah and her coworkers...

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