S. P. Growers Ass'n v. Rodriguez
California Supreme Court
David Laufer, Cecily Nyomarky, Richard A. Weisz, James Mattesich, Richard Pearl and Manuel Medeiros as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MOSK, J.
At issue is the right of a corporate agricultural employer to evict farmworker tenants from company-owned housing in retaliation for their role in filing suit against the company under the federal Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act.
Defendants are lemon pickers who were employees of plaintiff, a farm labor contractor. Plaintiff, through affiliated companies, provides housing to many of its employees, including these defendants.
On February 25, 1975, defendants, members of a citrus pickers’ association unaffiliated with any labor union, walked off their jobs in a dispute over…
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