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Nearly five years after federal agents stormed a Tennessee meatpacking plant and arrested over 100 Latino workers, U.S. government agencies agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in damages to settle a class action accusing the officers of targeting the employees on the basis of their ethnicity and using excessive force. Lead attorneys for the plaintiffs broke down the case for Law360.
A federal judge has approved a settlement of more than $1 million in a class action lawsuit that challenged a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee meatpacking plant where about 100 people were arrested
Some 100 people were arrested at a Tennessee meatpacking plant in 2018.
A federal judge approved a $1 million settlement in a lawsuit over a federal immigration raid at a Tennessee meatpacking plant. During the raid nearly 100 people were arrested.
The April 2018 raid on the Southeastern Provision slaughterhouse in Bean Station upended the lives of nearly 100 workers.