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Law Practice

Jun. 23, 2009

Jury Acquits in Ralphs Labor Case

A federal jury took less than five hours to acquit three former Ralphs Grocery Co. executives and managers of charges alleging they illegally rehired hundreds of locked-out workers using false names and false Social Security numbers during during Southern California's bitter 2003-04 supermarket labor dispute.

By Ciaran McEvoy
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury took less than five hours to acquit three former Ralphs Grocery Co. executives and managers of charges alleging they illegally rehired hundreds of locked-out workers using false names and false Social Security numbers during Southern California's bitter 2003-04 supermarket labor dispute.

The stunning verdicts came after a three-week trial before U.S. District Judge Percy Ande...

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