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LOUISIANA FORESTRY ASS'N, INC. v. SOLIS

Civil Action No. 11-7687.

889 F.Supp.2d 711 (2012)

The LOUISIANA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Hilda SOLIS, et al., Defendants, and Comité De Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agrícolas, et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 20, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Wayne Pierce , The Pierce Law Firm LLC, Annapolis, MD, Anthony B. Haller , Lauren A. Fox , Blank Rome LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Leon R. Sequeira , Seyfarth Shaw, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Geoffrey Forney , United States Department of Justice, Harry L. Sheinfeld , U.S. Dept of Labor, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Clermont L. Fraser , Raleigh, NC, Meredith B. Stewart , New Orleans, LA, Sarah Rempel Claassen , Silas M. Shawver , Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc, Baltimore, MD, Arthur N. Read , Liz Maria Chacko , Friends of Farmworkers, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, D. Michael Dale , Northwest Workers' Justice Project, Portland, OR, Edward Tuddenham , Law Office of Edward Tuddenham, New York, NY, Mary C. Bauer , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, for Defendant-Intervenors.

MEMORANDUM

LEGROME D. DAVIS, District Judge.

On January 19, 2011, the Department of Labor ("DOL") issued a new regulation to govern the calculation of the minimum wage that a United States employer must offer in order to recruit foreign workers as part of the H-2B visa program ("the 2011 wage rule"). The H-2B visa program permits employers to recruit unskilled laborers from abroad to fill positions that no qualified United States worker will accept...

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