TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 1, 2023

Nearly five years after agents from multiple federal agencies detained Latino workers during a Grainger County slaughterhouse raid, a judge has finalized a class action settlement for the workers, Tennessee Lookout reports. First approved in September 2022, the settlement awards more than $1 million to the 104 members of the class, with $475,000 going to the seven workers who originally filed. Agents with the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned the raid for more than a year before entering the Southeastern Provision plant in Bean Station on April 5, 2018. Court records showed the agencies misled a federal judge about the purpose of the raid, telling a federal judge they were seeking to gather records for a tax evasion case against the owner James Brantley.