Judge sides with KUB contract workers in pay lawsuit


By Jamie Satterfield

Posted June 22, 2011 at midnight


In the first ruling of its kind in the federal court system in Tennessee and three surrounding states, a Knoxville magistrate judge is blocking a KUB contractor from trying to defeat a lawsuit over back wages by attacking the immigration status of the workers who filed it.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Guyton acknowledged in his ruling the legal weightiness of the issue at hand for businesses and workers in the federal 6th Circuit, which includes Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan.

“The court finds that the issue now before the court is an issue of first impression,â€