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JENKINS v. S & A CHAISSAN & SONS, INC.

Nos. 77 Civ. 816, 77 Civ. 817 and 77 Civ. 818. (HFW).

449 F.Supp. 216 (1978)

Marvin JENKINS, Lovette Belcher, and Willie C. Brown, Plaintiffs, v. S & A CHAISSAN & SONS, INC., Valley Growers Co-Op, Inc., Ashton Hart, Secretary of Valley Growers Co-Op, Inc., and Aldo V. Chaissan, Silvio Chaissan, Leland Behnke, officers, owners, agents and stockholders of S & A Chaissan & Sons, Inc., Defendants. John McDONALD, Angin McNatt, Clarence Calloway, and Donnie Jackson, Plaintiffs, v. Michael NARDONE, John J. Currie, Michael Nardone d/b/a Michael Nardone Cold Storage, John F. Currie, Jr., Mid-Hudson Growers Co-Operative, Inc. and Charles Andola, Defendants. James LUELLEN, Willie J. Johnson, Walter Myles, Leroy Johnson, and Theodore Young, Plaintiffs, v. STANLEY ORCHARDS, INC., Valley Growers Co-Op, Inc., Ashton Hart, Secretary of Valley Growers Co-Op, Inc., Lester Cohn, President of Stanley Orchards, Inc., and Stanley Cohn, owners, agents, and stockholders of Stanley Orchards, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

March 15, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mid Hudson Legal Services, Inc., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Migrant Legal Action Program, Inc., Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs; Gene Reibman, White Plains, N. Y., Charles Horwitz, John Ebbott, of counsel.

Hays, St. John, Abramson & Heilbron, New York City, Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Washington, D. C., for defendants; Joseph Kevin McKay, New York City, Pierre J. LaForce, John M. Facciola, S. Steven Karalekas, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

OPINION

WERKER, District Judge.

I

The migrant farmworker plaintiffs in these consolidated actions seek to vindicate certain statutory and common law rights which they allege were infringed by the defendants, apple growers and associations of apple growers in the Hudson Valley and certain of their officers and shareholders. Plaintiffs assert that they are entitled to declaratory and equitable relief as well as money damages for the defendants' denial...

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