March 04, 2024
A Nevada federal judge culled individual ranches from a sheepherder's antitrust lawsuit Monday, ruling that for now, the proposed class action has failed to specify their role in an alleged scheme led by the Western Range Association to keep guest worker wages down to the level of "permanent indentured servitude."
September 13, 2023
A Peruvian sheep-herder hit back at ranches looking to escape allegations that they conspired to suppress migrant ranchers' wages, telling a Nevada federal court that he had sufficiently connected the businesses to an alleged conspiracy orchestrated by a ranching association.
August 11, 2023
Ranching companies have urged a Nevada federal court to free them from a Peruvian shepherd's lawsuit, which accuses a ranching organization of scheming to exploit temporary foreign agricultural workers through wage suppression, saying it lacks specific facts implicating them.
March 22, 2023
A Nevada federal court refused to toss a second suit accusing the Western Range Association of fixing wages for shepherds near the lowest possible level, crediting new evidence not seen by the Tenth Circuit when it refused to revive similar claims.
October 17, 2022
A shepherd's suit alleging the Western Range Association fixed shepherds' wages at the level of indentured servitude isn't intertwined enough with another case the association beat in the Tenth Circuit, the worker said, urging a Nevada federal court to keep his suit standing.
August 17, 2022
The Western Range Association urged a Nevada federal judge Tuesday to toss a proposed class action it calls "essentially identical" to one it already beat at the Tenth Circuit that accuses the trade group of fixing shepherds' wages at the level of indentured servitude.
June 02, 2022
A shepherd sued a trade group that represents hundreds of ranchers, accusing the organization of fixing wages at "aberrational levels" and keeping workers, most of whom are guest workers, locked into "permanent indentured servitude."