Former Macau law professor giving former IPI chair bad advice, says attorney Lizama mvariety.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mvariety.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
âIf there was any miscommunication, I wasnât aware of it,â Lizama added.
On Tuesday, he filed a motion to withdraw from representing former Imperial Pacific International Holdings chair Cui Li Jie in the lawsuit of seven construction workers over labor abuse and human trafficking allegations. Â
Cui is a third-party witness in the lawsuit of the seven workers against IPI and its former contractor and subcontractor, MCC International and Gold Mantis Construction Decoration, both of which have settled with the plaintiffs.
She recently told the District Court for the NMI that she was not satisfied with the representation of Lizama and had asked the court for additional time to look for a âcompetent attorney.â
A judge on the US Pacific island of Saipan on Monday ordered a Hong Kong company to pay seven Chinese construction workers a total of US$5.4 million f.
HONOLULU (AP) A judge on the U.S. Pacific island of Saipan on Monday ordered a Hong Kong company to pay seven Chinese construction workers a total of $5.4 million for forcing them to work long hours in dangerous conditions to build a casino, while they were denied medical care for injuries and threatened with deportation and death.
Chief Judge Ramona Manglona of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, said she issued her ruling after Hong Kong s Imperial Pacific International repeatedly failed to comply with court orders to exchange information with the lawsuit s plaintiffs.
Court awards $5.43M in damages to casino construction workers
By Steve Limtiaco
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A federal judge in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on Monday awarded $5.43 million in damages to seven Chinese construction workers who had been hired to build the Imperial Palace casino, on Saipan.
The men, who said they were recruited from China under false pretenses, said they were victims of human trafficking, subjected to forced labor, and were injured at the worksite. They also had sued the contractors who employed them – Gold Mantis Construction Decoration and MCC International Saipan – but settled with those companies, and those complaints were dismissed.