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  1. March 24, 2023

    Inside The Settlement Over ICE's 'Steak Out' Raid In Tenn.

    Nearly five years after federal agents stormed a Tennessee meatpacking plant and arrested over 100 Latino workers, U.S. government agencies agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in damages to settle a class action accusing the officers of targeting the employees on the basis of their ethnicity and using excessive force. Lead attorneys for the plaintiffs broke down the case for Law360.

  2. February 28, 2023

    Latino Workers, Feds' Settlement Over IRS Raid Gets Final OK

    A Tennessee federal judge will give final approval to a settlement resolving Latino workers' claims that agents from the IRS and U.S. Department of Homeland Security violated their constitutional rights during a 2018 raid on a meat processing plant, according to a court filing.

  3. October 19, 2022

    Latino Workers Get Nod On Settlement In IRS Raid Suit

    A Tennessee federal judge gave his initial blessing Wednesday to a proposed settlement to resolve Latino workers' claims that federal agents from the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies violated their constitutional rights during a 2018 raid on a meatpacking factory.

  4. October 13, 2022

    Latino Plant Workers Reach $550K Deal In IRS Raid Suit

    Latino workers have reached a $550,000 settlement with federal agents from the IRS and other agencies in a suit accusing them of violating the workers' constitutional rights during a 2018 Tennessee meatpacking facility raid, according to a Wednesday filing in a Tennessee federal court.

  5. August 10, 2022

    Latino Plant Workers Get Class Cert. In IRS 'Steak Out' Suit

    Latino workers accusing immigration officials of violating their constitutional rights during a federal raid at a meatpacking plant can proceed in their lawsuit as a class after a Tennessee federal judge said any ruling applicable to one plaintiff would apply to about a hundred others.

  6. January 26, 2022

    IRS Agents Can't Escape Meatpackers' Immigration Raid Suit

    A Tennessee federal judge denied dismissal motions Wednesday from some Internal Revenue Service agents in a suit over an immigration raid on a meatpacking plant, ruling that the claims are not time-barred because the agency worked to hide the agents' identities and prevented the plaintiffs from naming them within the initial one-year time frame.

  7. December 22, 2021

    IRS Agents Can't Duck Immigration Raid Suit, Workers Say

    More than three dozen former and current IRS agents should stand trial for their participation in an immigration raid on a meatpacking plant in Tennessee that resulted in numerous alleged civil rights violations, plant workers told a federal judge.

  8. December 01, 2021

    Too Late To Add IRS Agents To ICE Raid Suit, Feds Say

    More than three dozen current and former Internal Revenue Service agents have urged a Tennessee federal judge to toss newly added claims against them in a suit over a 2018 meatpacking plant raid, arguing that the deadline to include them has passed.

  9. April 16, 2021

    DHS Pans Attempt To Add 41 IRS Agents To ICE Raid Suit

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged a Tennessee federal court to exclude dozens of tax agents from litigation over an immigration raid that resulted in the arrest of 104 Latino workers, saying the workers haven't shown that the agents planned the operation.

  10. February 01, 2021

    Tenn. Judge Says Hands Tied In Meatpacking Plant ICE Raid

    A Tennessee federal court tossed Latino workers' claims that they were targeted by immigration officers during a meatpacking plant raid, saying that the judicial system is "by design and blemish" an imperfect institution to address racial discrimination.