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27 PUERTO RICAN MIGRANT F. W. v. SHADE TOBACCO G. A. A., I.

Civ. A. No. 15243.

352 F.Supp. 986 (1973)

27 PUERTO RICAN MIGRANT FARM WORKERS v. SHADE TOBACCO GROWERS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION, INC., & General Cigar Company.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

January 10, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Sheehan, Farmworkers Div., Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc., Springfield, Mass., Kevin Carey, Migrant Legal Action Program, Inc., Washington, D. C., James W. Zion, Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc., Hartford, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Aaron Nassau, Elsner & Nassau, Hartford, Conn., for defendants.

RULING ON MOTION TO DISMISS

CLARIE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are 27 Puerto Rican migrant workers who allege a violation of the employment contract under which they labored in the tobacco fields of the Connecticut Valley this past summer. They are citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The defendants are the Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association, a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut, whose membership...

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