United States Eleventh Circuit

In suit alleging violation of migrant workers' rights under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, order granting class certification is affirmed over claim that the district court abused its discretion in certifying the proposed class consisting of over 1,500 migrant workers admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B temporary foreign worker visa program and sub-class consisting of those workers who pledged collateral with defendants' agents in order to obtain employment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2007
• Published 08/31/2007

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James L. Stine, Elizabeth K. Dorminey, Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel, Nelson & Schneider, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants., James M. Knoepp, Legal Justice Ctr., Charlottesville, VA, Andrew Hess Turner, Mary C. Bauer, Southern Poverty Law Ctr., Montgomery, AL, George Brian Spears, Law Office of Brian Spears, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.