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« BellSouth's Customer Disservice | Main | Laws, Sausage and Blogs » January 4, 2006Fruit and Carpet in CourtBy Donna Locke William Zirkle has agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit accusing him and two other executives at a Selah-based fruit company of conspiring to hire thousands of illegal immigrants in order to keep wages low. The executives admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement. The corporation, Zirkle Fruit, was not a defendant.Then, in an embarrassment of riches, we learned that another one of the immigration-control movement's RICO suits against alleged or proven employers of illegal aliens has made it to the Supreme Court, as the target tries to void the RICO argument. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week [mid-December] to hear Mohawk Industries Inc.'s contention that it shouldn't face a civil racketeering suit could resolve disagreements about how courts handle similar suits by workers complaining that their employers drive down wages by hiring illegal immigrants willing to work cheap. This is the claim made by former and current hourly employees of the Calhoun, Ga.-based carpet giant in their 2004 class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The employees' case already has survived Mohawk's challenges in the district court and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.We'll see more lawsuits like these. Posted in Immigration
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