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PEREZ-FARIAS v. GLOBAL HORIZONS, INC.

No. 86793-3.

286 P.3d 46 (2012)

Certification from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Jose Guadalupe PEREZ-FARIAS Jose F. Sanchez; Ricardo Betancourt, and all other similarly situated persons, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GLOBAL HORIZONS, INC.; Jane Doe Orian; Platte River Insurance Company; Valley Fruit Orchards, LLC; Green Acre Farms, Inc.; and Mordechai Orian, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Decided September 27, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Matthew Geyman , Phillips Law Group PLLC, Seattle, WA, Lori Jordan Isley , Columbia Legal Services, Yakima, WA, Amy Louise Crewdson , Columbia Legal Services, Olympia, WA, Joachim Morrison , Attorney at Law, Wenatchee, WA, Richard W. Kuhling , Paine Hamblen LLP, Spokane, WA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Brendan V. Monahan , Stokes Lawrence Velikanje Moore & Shore, Yakima, WA, Justo Gonzalez , Stokes Lawrence PS, Seattle, WA, Matthew S. Gibbs , Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Kristopher Ian Tefft , Association of Washington Business, Olympia, WA, amicus counsel for Association of Washington Business.

Arthur Schmidt , Nargess Shadbeh , Oregon Law Center, D. Michael Dale , Northwest Workers' Justice Project, Portland, OR, Peter L. Fels , Peter L. Fels PC, Vancouver, WA, amicus counsel for Northwest Workers' Justice Project and Oregon Law Center.

Jeffrey Lowell Needle , Joseph Robert Shaeffer , MacDonald Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, WA, amicus counsel for Washington Employment Lawyers Association.

James Stephen Elliott , Velikanje Halverson PC, Yakima, WA, amicus counsel for Washington Farm Labor Association, Washington Growers League, Washington state Horticultural Assoc. et al., Wenatchee Valley Traffic Association, and Yakima Valley Growers-Shippers Association.

C. JOHNSON, J.

¶ 1 These three certified questions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concern application of the farm labor contractors act (FLCA), chapter 19.30 RCW. The primary question asks whether a trial court, if awarding statutory damages under the civil remedies provision of the FLCA, RCW 19.30.170(2), must award $500 per plaintiff per violation. We answer this question in the affirmative. The second question asks whether requiring a trial court...

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