Jane Doe v. James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Nine migrant agricultural workers, protected by pseudonyms, challenge the constitutionality of provisions in various federal and state statutes which operate to exclude them and others so situated from the beneficial provisions of social legislation in such areas as unemployment compensation, minimum hours and wages, social security and workmen’s compensation. 1 Plaintiffs’ complaint sought the convening of a three-judge court, a declaratory judgment, and “appropriate equitable relief in the nature of injunction or mandamus enforcing plaintiffs’ rights and defendants’…