| Vegan Restaurant Workers
Settlement Blown Up By Coronavirus Now Back On
Clogged Trial Calendar
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 6 – Now the
Coronavirus is blowing up
court settlements. In January
2020, Pamela Blackwell as
owner of the vegan restaurants
named Blossom du Jour, in
Manhattan on 13th Street, 23rd
Street, 67th Street and 82nd
Street, settled Fair Labor
Standard Act claims with her
workers.
Their
complaint described preparing
pico de gallo and guacamole
without being paid overtime.
The settlement would pay these
workers the money they were
owed.
But
now Blackwell says she can't
pay. In a status conference
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Sarah L.
Cave on May 6 that Inner City
Press alone covered, Blackwell
was present.
She had said, "the restaurant
is barely functioning and no
one knows where things are
headed with this pandemic.
Even if the shut down is
lifted, there is no way to
know if and when business will
return or if it will ever
survive."
The plaintiffs'
lawyer said they are ready
then to move to trial.
Magistrate Judge Cave, who had
mused about default, told them
to re-apply to District Judge
Vernon Broderick to seek a
trial date, while noting that
trial may not begin again
until the Fall, and even then.
The case is
Ramos, et al. v. BDJVegan1,
Inc. et al., 16-cv-8776
(Broderick / Cave).
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