Legal Opinion
Rodriguez Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Berrybrook Farms, Inc.
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided September 24, 1987No. K86-161PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ENSLEN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs are migrant farmworkers who were allegedly recruited by defendants Guadalupe Rodriguez and Elida Garcia to work for defendant Berrybrook Farms (“Berrybrook”). Berrybrook is an agribusiness which employed hundreds of agricultural laborers during the 1985 harvest season. Plaintiffs allege that in exchange for their labor the defendants housed them in rural shacks which were declared uninhabitable and which were refused occupancy permits by the Michigan Department of Health. Plaintiffs further allege that defendants then forced them to pay rent for these…
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