Orchard Management Co. v. Soto

In 1983, Fernando Varges Soto and thirty-two other Puerto Rican migrant farm workers (the Workers) 1 filed motions for judgment against Orchard Management Company and six other Virginia apple growers (the Growers), 2 seeking to have the trial court give full faith and credit to default judgments the Workers had secured against the Growers in the Superior Courts of Puerto Rico. Entered in 1979, the default judgments were based upon breach of employment contracts.

The trial court ordered consolidation of the thirty-three cases, and, on November 9, 1994, granted summary judgment in favor of the…