| Bronx Live Poultry Farm
Underpaid Cutters But Stayed Open As Essential
Business Now Sued
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 12 – Antonia Vargas was a
poultry cutter as Live Poultry
Farm at 1167 Webster Avenue in
the South Bronx. The company
did not pay overtime. She sued
the company, and four owners
and managers, in March 2019.
On
May 12, 2020 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Lewis J. Liman held a
conference in the case, which
Inner City Press which has
long reported on Webster
Avenue and The Bronx also
covered.
While one
of the individual defendants,
complaining about being
dropped cold by his lawyer,
did appear representing
himself, the company had no
lawyer.
Judge Liman suggested the
filing a motion for default
judgment, in a month's time.
He asked if the business is
still operating, amid
Coronavirus.
Yes, he
was told, it was deemed an
essential business. It is not,
however, a wet market.
The case is
Vargas Sanchez, et al. v. Live
Poultry Farm Corp. et al.,
19-cv-2179 (Liman).
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