Gomez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARISOL GOMEZ and IGNACIO CASE NO. 1:15-cv-01489-AWI-BAM

OSORIO,

5 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING, IN PART, AND DENYING, IN PART, PLAINTIFFS’ v. MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION

J. JACOBO FARM LABOR

CONTRACTOR, INC. (Doc. Nos. 108, 108-1) Defendant.

I. Introduction In this lawsuit a farm labor contractor is being sued by two of its employees for violating 13 California’s wage-and-hour laws and the federal Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers

14 Protection Act of 1983 (“MAWPA”). The two employees are Plaintiffs Marisol Gomez and

15 Ignacio Osorio (collectively “Plaintiffs”). The farm labor contractor is Defendant J. Jacobo Farm

16 Labor Contractor, Inc., which is not to be confused with Javier Jacobo, who is the president of J.

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