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LOUISIANA FORESTRY ASS'N, INC. v. SOLIS

Civil Action No. 11-7687.

889 F.Supp.2d 711 (2012)

The LOUISIANA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Hilda SOLIS, et al., Defendants, and Comité De Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agrícolas, et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 20, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Wayne Pierce, The Pierce Law Firm LLC, Annapolis, MD, Anthony B. Haller, Lauren A. Fox, Blank Rome LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Leon R. Sequeira, Seyfarth Shaw, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Geoffrey Forney, United States Department of Justice, Harry L. Sheinfeld, U.S. Dept of Labor, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Clermont L. Fraser, Raleigh, NC, Meredith B. Stewart, New Orleans, LA, Sarah Rempel Claassen, Silas M. Shawver, Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc, Baltimore, MD, Arthur N. Read, Liz Maria Chacko, Friends of Farmworkers, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, D. Michael Dale, Northwest Workers' Justice Project, Portland, OR, Edward Tuddenham, Law Office of Edward Tuddenham, New York, NY, Mary C. Bauer, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, for Defendant-Intervenors.

MEMORANDUM

LEGROME D. DAVIS, District Judge.

On January 19, 2011, the Department of Labor ("DOL") issued a new regulation to govern the calculation of the minimum wage that a United States employer must offer in order to recruit foreign workers as part of the H-2B visa program ("the 2011 wage rule"). The H-2B visa program permits employers to recruit unskilled laborers from abroad to fill positions that no qualified United States worker will accept...

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