| Indian Restaurants Sued By
Staff Cite COVID As Basis For Refusing
Discovery in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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UK - Honduras
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Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 24 – Jose Angel Basurto
and others sued Mughlai Indian
Cuisine for wage violations in
"non-tipped duties" including
"cutting onions, cutting
potatoes, cutting broccoli,
peeling onions, peeling
potatoes, etc.)."
On
August 24, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Magistrate Judge
Robert W. Lehrburger held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
The
plaintiffs had sought the
conference about the
restaurants failure to comply
with discovery. For their
part, the defense emphasized
how COVID-19 and the lock-down
had destroyed their
business.
But it
arose that even amid temporary
downturn, the restaurants or
their parent Eda Food, Inc.
might have, say, $2 million in
the bank. So discovery will
continue.
The case is
Basurto et al v. Eda Food Inc.
et al., 18-cv-8858 (Nathan /
Lehrburger)
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