Legal Opinion
Ramirez v. DeCoster
District Court, D. Maine
Decided March 31, 2000No. 98-186-P-HPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*351ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION AND DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
HORNBY, Chief Judge.
Former and current employees of DeCoster Egg Farms (“DeCoster”) bring this action on behalf of themselves and all other De-Coster employees of Mexican descent. The workers claim that DeCoster injured them in numerous ways: by violating their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (racial discrimination); by violating their rights under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (“AWPA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq. (1983) (unsafe and unsanitary housing and false and…
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