United States Seventh Circuit

Former employees at defendant's meat-processing plant, alleging that wages at the plant are depressed due to its practice of hiring illegal aliens, fail to articulate a RICO violation. They also fail to establish the foundation for displacing the union as their representative with respect to wages.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/30/2003
• Decided 02/04/2004
• Published 02/04/2004

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard William Foster (argued), Johnson & Bell, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David B. Johnson (argued), Eric S. Mattson and Emily A. Mily, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.