MOLINA-ARANDA v. BLACK MAGIC ENTERPRISES, L.L.C.

No. 19-50638.

983 F.3d 779 (2020)

Ruben MOLINA-ARANDA; Jose Eduardo Martinez-Vela; Juan Gerardo Lopez-Quesada, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BLACK MAGIC ENTERPRISES, L.L.C., doing business as JMPAL Trucking; Carmen Ramirez; Jessie Ramirez, III, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED December 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Wolfman , Georgetown Law Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, Washington, DC, Bradley Girard , Americans United for Separation of Church & State, Washington, DC, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan , Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Incorporated, Mercedes, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Raffi Melkonian , Wright, Close & Barger, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Owen, Chief Judge, and Dennis and Haynes, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiffs allege that Carmen and Jessie Ramirez brought them to the United States under the H-2B visa program to work as construction workers. Once Plaintiffs arrived in the United States, however, the Ramirezes allegedly made them work as truck drivers, who typically receive higher wages and for whom H-2B visas are consequently...

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