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Agriculture

Aug. 24, 2006

Farm Labor Agency Files Rare Suit Over Use of Illegal Pickers

SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer has filed an unusual antitrust lawsuit accusing a large Kern County farm of hiring illegal immigrants to undercut his client's contract to provide blueberry pickers during harvest.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer has filed an unusual antitrust lawsuit accusing a large Kern County farm of hiring illegal immigrants to undercut his client's contract to provide blueberry pickers during harvest.
      David Klehm, a sole practitioner in Santa Ana, said the lawsuit is likely to be the first of many against busi...

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