United States Ninth Circuit

In a claim by migrant workers under the Agricultural Worker Protection Act, defendant non-resident farm employer's purposeful interjection of its agent into Arizona, the disparity of burdens between parties, and state's interest in litigation, all established defendant's sufficient contacts with Arizona for purposes of personal jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2002
• Published 04/26/2002

Judges

• Before NOONAN, HAWKINS, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen E. Tamburro, George McKay and Pamela Bridge, Community Legal Services, Programa Campesino, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Cynthia L. Rice, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Mauricio Dominguez, urging reversal., John J. Rademacher, Park Ridge, IL, and Elizabeth Croron Dribusch, Glenmont, NY, for Amici Curiae American Farm Bureau Federation, and New York Farm Bureau, Inc., urging affirmance.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frank A. Aloi, Rochester, NY, for the defendant-appellee.