Sutherland Asbill and Kilpatrick Townsend have filed human trafficking suits in Texas federal court for 50 Indian guest workers whom they allege were treated like modern-day slaves by marine fabricator Signal International. The suits are the first to be filed in a massive pro bono effort spearheaded by the Southern Poverty Law Center and joined by several law firms last year.
June 03, 2013 at 06:22 AM
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Two Atlanta law firms, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, have filed human trafficking suits in federal court in Texas for 50 Indian guest workers whom they allege were treated like modern-day slaves by Signal International LLC, a marine fabricator based in Mobile, Ala.
Signal recruited the men to work as pipe fitters and welders at its shipyards in Orange, Texas, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita scattered its local labor force, according to the complaints.
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