{"id":20578,"date":"2016-03-22T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/news\/win-u-s-supreme-court-upholds-class-action-suit-against-tyson-foods\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:44:18","slug":"win-u-s-supreme-court-upholds-class-action-suit-against-tyson-foods","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/news\/win-u-s-supreme-court-upholds-class-action-suit-against-tyson-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Win: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Class-Action Suit Against Tyson Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 22, 2016<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><b>Win: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Class-Action Suit Against Tyson Foods<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><i><b>Statement of Scott Michelman, Attorney, Public Citizen<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Note: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/our-work\/litigation\/cases\/tyson-foods-v-bouaphakeo\">Tyson Foods Inc. v. Bouaphakeo<\/a><i> that Tyson Foods workers were entitled to litigate, as a class, their claims for lost wages due to violations of wage and hour laws. The company had argued that the workers should not have been able to join together in a single lawsuit because each worker\u2019s claimed loss was different. Public Citizen served as co-counsel for the workers in the Supreme Court.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s decision is a strong reaffirmation of workers\u2019 rights to join together in taking their employer to court for failing to pay wages due under state and federal laws. The Supreme Court rejected the corporate defense bar\u2019s strong push to eliminate the ability of workers and consumers to litigate common claims through class actions \u2013 which are critical to holding corporations accountable for systemic wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>We were privileged to work with Robert Wiggins of Wiggins, Childs, Pantazis, Fisher &amp; Goldfarb LLC in Birmingham, Ala.; David Frederick of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans &amp; Figel PLLC in Washington, D.C.; and Eric Schnapper of the University of Washington School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-20578","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tax_news-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Win: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Class-Action Suit Against Tyson Foods - 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