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Class Action

Nov. 1, 2022

Class leaders should be booted from prisoner suit, defense says

The former inmates failed to show up for depositions, attorneys for Aramark Correctional Services and Alameda County say. The former inmates’ attorney says the requested remedy is extreme.

Two plaintiffs representing a class of prisoners who say they were threatened by jailers if they didn’t work for free for Aramark Correctional Services LLC while incarcerated should be removed from the case for failing to cooperate with discovery orders, Alameda County and Aramark told a federal judge Monday.

“Plaintiffs’ failure to appear for depositions and comply with the court’s orders has irreparably prejudiced defendants, who were re...

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