Plaintiffs lawyer Scott Hendler
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Banana plantation workers who tried to sue in Delaware – despite working in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama – have again been told they cannot do so.
The Delaware Supreme Court on Jan. 12 rejected their appeal to a 2013 dismissal of their complaint, finding a motion to vacate that dismissal filed five years after it was too late.
“Not surprisingly, the Superior Court cited the two reasons for the delay offered by the plaintiffs – the burden of the many other DBCP cases counsel was handling and the time and research required to prepare the motion – and found them to be unpersuasive,” says the opinion, authored by Justice James Vaughn.
The killing of
Mike Ramos by police last spring was a direct result of the racism that has permeated policing in Austin, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of his mother last week.
Brenda Ramos suit, prepared by
Rebecca Webber of the Hendler Flores law firm, asks for a jury trial and damages for the loss of her only son.
Mike Ramos, a Black and Latinx 42-year-old, died on April 24 after officers were summoned to his Southeast Austin apartment complex. A resident had called 911 to complain that a man was holding a gun to a woman s head as the couple did drugs inside a car. Several police units responded to the call, blocking the parking lot exit. Eight officers then pulled their weapons and ordered Ramos out of the car.