Legal Opinion
Victor Rivera v. Peri & Sons Farms, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 13, 2013No. 11-17365PublishedCited by 177 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We are asked to decide claims of Mexican temporary farmworkers under the Fair Labor Standards Act and relevant state law.
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Peri & Sons is a Nevada corporation that produces, harvests, and packages onions. 1 The plaintiffs are Victor Rivera Rivera and twenty-three other Mexican citizens (“the farmworkers”) admitted to the United States to cultivate, harvest, and process onions on Peri & Sons’ farm. Since 2004, Peri & Sons has hired such foreign workers through the H-2A program of the United States Department of Labor (DOL).
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