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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 May 4, 2021 • Updated on May 4, 2021 at 11:50 pm 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, pleaded guilty in June 2018 to one count of forced labor for ...

Court rules man enslaved by S.C. restaurant manager owed more than $500K in restitution Bobby Edwards (Source: JRLDC) By Brad Dickerson | May 4, 2021 at 12:01 PM EDT - Updated May 4 at 4:58 PM CONWAY, S.C. (WMBF) – An appellate court has ruled that a man with an intellectual disability who was forced to work over 100 hours per week at a Conway restaurant without pay is owed more than $500,000 in restitution. In 2019, Bobby Edwards, the manager of J&J Cafeteria in Conway, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $270,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to ...

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oxygen Insider Exclusive! Sign Up for Free to View A South Carolina restaurant manager who enslaved a Black employee with an intellectual disability for more than half a decade has been ordered to pay $546,000 in restitution.  Bobby Paul Edwards, 56, was originally ordered to pay John Christopher Smith $272,952.96 in restitution for thousands of hours of unpaid work he did during his employment as a dishwasher at J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina. On April 21, a South Carolina court ruled Edwards must now pay double what he initially owed. The United States District Court of Appeals fo...

Print this article A federal court ordered that a mentally challenged black man who was initially owed almost $300,000 in restitution fees from his former manager will now be entitled to nearly double the amount. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Virginia, ruled on April 21 that the initial ruling of John Christopher Smith's entitlements were flawed, citing that "liquidated damages" were excluded. Smith will now be owed $546,000. The 4th Circuit cited a 1945 U.S. Supreme Court case that found liquidated damages provision of the Fair Labor Stand...