[originally published 7/10 - sorry for the delay]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Seven Mexican and Guatemalan men who were arrested and detained in a raid on a kosher slaughterhouse last year in Iowa are coming to Minneapolis to perform a play they wrote about the experience.
“La Historia de Nuestras Vida,” or The Story of Our Lives, will [...]
Judge denies Rubashkin’s request to move trial
Judge Linda Reade today rejected the motion by defense attorneys, but suggested that she could change her mind as the Sept. 8 trial date nears. Reade issued a similar ruling in March, but allowed …
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The government is seeking to dismiss identity theft charges against the former vice president of a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville.
The government filed its motion Monday to dismiss the charges against former Agriprocessors Inc. vice president Sholom Rubashkin and another former employee Brent Beebe.
The men are named in a 79-count [...]
Supreme Court Rules Against Government in Identity-Theft Case
[authorities will be deprived]… of a means to pressure immigrants to plead guilty to lesser charges and agree to be deported. That was what happened to about 400 illegal workers arrested at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, in May 2008 …
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From the Associated Press:
Court rules for immigrant [...]
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