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Johnson & Bell, Ltd. Announces Date of Tyson Foods Class Action Case Management Conference

D Business News Chicago
January 19, 2007

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CHICAGO -- Noted Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) Attorney Howard W. Foster of the Chicago law firm of Johnson & Bell, Ltd. announced today the date of an upcoming case management conference in the landmark class action lawsuit against Tyson Foods. The lawsuit seeks back pay for U.S. workers and alleges that Tyson, reportedly the world’s largest processor and marketer of poultry, has employed many illegal immigrants at eight of its chicken processing plants in the South in order to depress wage levels.

The case management conference for Trollinger v. Tyson Foods, Inc., (4:02-cv-23 (E.D. Tenn)) will be held on January 29 at 10 a.m. in the third floor courtroom of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, 900 Georgia Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Foster serves as co-lead counsel for the class. He has become the leading attorney in the nation for using RICO as a tool to counter the hiring of illegal immigrants, since 1998 bringing class-action lawsuits against employers who allegedly engage in the practice to reduce labor costs. His first such case, Mendoza v. Zirkle (E.D. Wash.), was settled in January 2006 for $1.3 million, which is being distributed to legal workers of that company to compensate them for wage depression.

Foster is a shareholder in Johnson & Bell’s Chicago office. For further information on the Tyson Foods suit or Johnson & Bell, please contact him at (312) 984-0215. For a copy of the opinion, please contact Linda Purtell at (312) 372-0770, ext. 379.

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