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December 10, 2025 In Press Release

Servicios Legales de Colorado demanda a una granja del sur de Colorado por interferir con el acceso de trabajadores agrícolas a servicios

Servicios Legales de Colorado (CLS) presentó hoy una demanda contra una granja ubicada en Center, Colorado, y contra su contratista de mano de obra agrícola, por obstruir de manera ilegal las visitas de CLS a los trabajadores que viven en el campamento laboral de la...

December 10, 2025 In Cases

Enforcing Farm Workers’ Right to Visitors (Colorado Legal Services v. Southern Colorado Farms)

Colorado’s landmark 2021 Farm Worker Bill of Rights enshrined the right of agricultural workers to receive visitors at their housing, including employer-owned housing. This includes visitors like lawyers from Colorado Legal Services (CLS), Colorado’s statewide nonprofit legal aid program, who routinely attempt to visit with...

December 10, 2025 In Resource Materials

Complaint (CLS v. Southern CO Farms)

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December 10, 2025 In Press Release

Colorado Legal Services Sues Southern Colorado Farm for Interfering with Farm Workers’ Access to Services

Colorado Legal Services this week filed a lawsuit against a Center, CO farm and its farm labor contractor over illegal obstruction of CLS’s visits to workers staying at the farm’s labor camp. The suit seeks to uphold CLS’s right to visit workers at the camp...

October 16, 2025 In News

Detroit Free Press: Michigan Supreme Court hears case over workers’ compensation for undocumented immigrants

“When government officials act unconstitutionally, they can be held accountable,” said David Muraskin, an attorney with agricultural law firm FarmSTAND, representing MIRC in the case....

October 16, 2025 In News

Farmers’ Advance: Michigan Supreme Court hears case over workers’ compensation for undocumented immigrants

“When government officials act unconstitutionally, they can be held accountable,” said David Muraskin, an attorney with agricultural law firm FarmSTAND, representing MIRC in the case....

October 16, 2025 In News

Michigan Advance: Michigan Supreme Court justices question governor’s immunity, timeliness of worker’s comp lawsuit

In a press conference prior to the oral arguments, Muraskin described this lawsuit as a question of Michiganders’ ability to take their government to court over perceived wrongs. “That would mean that when the governor has a policy of any unconstitutional conduct, including this one, the...

October 16, 2025 In News

Michigan Public: Michigan high court hears case about workers’ comp for undocumented immigrants

MIRC rejected that argument, its lawyers claiming instead that the harm is ongoing since the workers’ comp denials continue to increase the group’s call volume. Speaking in the lobby outside the court after oral arguments, attorney David Muraskin, representing the immigrant rights center, said the governor...

October 16, 2025 In News

MLive: Lawsuit over workers’ comp for undocumented immigrants lands in Michigan Supreme Court

“The governor has been playing a game throughout this case. She has insisted on immunity up to this court and that is why she’s been able to delay this case for years,” said David Muraskin, an attorney with FarmSTAND who is representing MIRC alongside the...

October 16, 2025 In News

Bloomberg Law: Michigan Justices Urged to Revive Immigrant Worker Benefit Case

The state Court of Appeals tossed the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center's case against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) because it wrongly concluded that the group blew past a one-year filing deadline spelled out in state law, said attorney David S. Muraskin. Characterizing the case as one...

farmworkers

Servicios Legales de Colorado demanda a una granja del sur de Colorado por interferir con el acceso de trabajadores agrícolas a servicios

Enforcing Farm Workers’ Right to Visitors (Colorado Legal Services v. Southern Colorado Farms)

Complaint (CLS v. Southern CO Farms)

Colorado Legal Services Sues Southern Colorado Farm for Interfering with Farm Workers’ Access to Services

Detroit Free Press: Michigan Supreme Court hears case over workers’ compensation for undocumented immigrants

Farmers’ Advance: Michigan Supreme Court hears case over workers’ compensation for undocumented immigrants

Michigan Advance: Michigan Supreme Court justices question governor’s immunity, timeliness of worker’s comp lawsuit

Michigan Public: Michigan high court hears case about workers’ comp for undocumented immigrants

MLive: Lawsuit over workers’ comp for undocumented immigrants lands in Michigan Supreme Court

Bloomberg Law: Michigan Justices Urged to Revive Immigrant Worker Benefit Case

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