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Article: Garment workers looking sharp in war with retailer.(Law)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 3, 2004
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FOREVER 21 Inc. has been turned back in its effort to bring libel cases against 19 garment workers who claim the Los Angeles retailer failed to pay legal wages and forced them to work in deplorable conditions.
In separate decisions, a three-judge panel of the 2nd Appellate District on April 21 granted the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of L.A. dismissal of a libel suit filed by Forever 21, while also granting the Garment Workers Center the right to proceed in a similar manner.
Forever 21 sued both groups, alleging that demonstrations and boycott leaflets distributed outside its stores defamed the retailer because the complaining garment workers ...