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Black Man Enslaved by White Restaurant Owner Should be Awarded More Than $500K, Court Rules John Christopher Smith, who has intellectual disabilities, was forced to work at a South Carolina restaurant for over 100 hours a week without pay for five years Published 4 hours ago Google Maps A Black man with intellectual disabilities should be awarded more than $500,000 after he was enslaved for five years at a South Carolina restaurant, a court ruled. Bobby Paul Edwards, who is white, plea...

A federal court ruled last month that a Black man with intellectual disabilities who was enslaved for five years at a restaurant should be awarded double the amount of compensation from the manager, The Washington Post reported this week. Upon pleading guilty to a “forced labor charge” in 2018, 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison and directed by a court to repay John Christopher Smith $273,000 in “unpaid wages and overtime compensation at J&J Cafeteria.” E...

Court: South Carolina Black man made to work without pay entitled to $546K The defendant used violence and other coercive means to make the victim work more than 100 hours a week for no pay between 2009 and 2014, court records show. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Published: 4:17 PM EDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 12:13 AM EDT May 5, 2021 RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court has ruled that a Black man with intellectual disabilities who was forced to work more than...

For five years, a white restaurant manager forced a mentally disabled Black man to work over 100 hour work weeks with no pay. Recently, a South Carolina court found that the now-imprisoned restaurant manager needs to pay the man he enslaved over $500,000. In 2019, Restaurant manager, Bobby Paul Edwards, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after taking a guilty plea for his role in forcing John Christopher Smith, to work over 100 hours a week with no pay at  J&J Cafeteria. When Edwards was sen...

Essence A South Carolina judge has ruled that a former restaurant manager must pay an intellectually disabled Black man $546,000 after forcing him to work for more than 100 hours a week without paying him. According to the Post and Courier, J&J Cafeteria restaurant manager Bobby Paul Edwards, 56 is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to forcing John Christopher Smith, 43 to work at the South Carolina restaurant without pay from 2009 – 2014. Smith starte...

A South Carolina man with intellectual disabilities was forced to work over 100 hours every week for years without pay and subjected to verbal and physical abuse. Now the court system says he's due more than half a million dollars.

Along with abuse, the manager forced the intellectually disabled Black man to work for more than 100 hours a week without paying him.

Updated: 6:57 PM EDT May 4, 2021 After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without pay in a South Carolina restaurant, his manager was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution.But a federal appeals court recently ruled the man is entitled to double that amount under federal labor laws.A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a U.S. District Cour...

Published May 04. 2021 10:31PM  By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without pay in a South Carolina restaurant, his manager was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution. But a federal appeals court recently ruled the man is entitled to double that amount under federal labor laws. A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Cou...

 *A white restaurant manager in Conway, South Carolina has been ordered by a court to pay back twice the restitution owed to the Black man he enslaved for five years. John Christopher Smith, a Black man with an intellectual disability, was forced to work for five years without pay at the J&J Cafeteria managed by 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards. A court ruled on April 21 that Edwards, who is in prison for the crime, will pay Smith double for unpaid wages and overtime. Bobby Paul Edwards (L) a...