In
The News: 2008
Daily Journal
March 4, 2008
“Newspaper Ordered to Pay $5.2 Million”
By Robert Iafolla
A federal judge awarded workers at a Chinese-language
newspaper $5.2 million, the latest step in a four-year
battle over violations of state and federal labor laws.“It was an incredibly hard-fought case - the defense was not vaguely
interested in a resolution at any point,” said Randy Renick of Hadsell
Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick, the lead trial attorney for the plaintiffs.
. . .“The jury spoke loudly when it awarded over $2.5 million,” he
said. “Judge Marshall was even more vocal when she awarded $5.19 million.”
New York Times
March 1, 2008
“Paper is Penalized for Labor Violations”
By Rebecca Cathcart
One of the area’s largest Chinese-language newspapers was
ordered by a federal judge here Friday to pay millions of dollars
to 200 employees who were denied years of overtime pay and subjected
to other labor law violations.
The $5.19 million award, to the employees of The Chinese Daily News, included
penalties for violating labor laws as well as 10 percent interest on the original
award of $2.5 million, which was granted by a jury in 2007. . . .
The paper owes its employees overtime wages dating to 2000, said the employees’ main
lawyer, Randy Renick, adding that many employees who joined the suit “have
either been fired or forced to quit.”
Los Angeles Times
March 1, 2008
“Paper Must Pay in Labor Case; Chinese Daily News
Workers Say They Put in 12-Hour Days Without Breaks or Overtime.”
By Tiffany Hsu
One of the nation's largest Chinese-language newspapers was slapped with a federal
court order to pay $5.2 million to past and current employees who were forced
to work 12-hour days without breaks or overtime pay.
The Chinese Daily News, based in Los Angeles and New York, must pay more than
$3.5 million in damages and penalties in addition to more than $1.5 million in
interest to the workers, according to an order issued late Thursday by U.S. District
Judge Consuelo B. Marshall in Los Angeles. . . .
“It's been a long fight, and it's a great victory,” said Randall
Renick, a plaintiffs' lawyer.
Daily Journal
January 14, 2008
“Panel Says No to Probes of NASA Workers' Sex Lives”
By John Roemer
New intrusive background checks of NASA scientists' sex lives and other intimate
issues have gotten three thumbs down from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
panel.The proposed checks outraged workers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
operated by the California Institute of Technology under a NASA contract. . .
. “These checks really are reminiscent of the Cold War period," said
Virginia Keeny, a partner at Pasadena's Hadsell & Stormer, who represented
the workers. "Now the question is whether the feds will take this to the
Supreme Court."
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