New Delhi, May 30 -- The U.S. District Court in Boise has dismissed a lawsuit against Murtaugh-based Funk Dairy brought by six Mexican veterinarians formerly employed at the dairy.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2017, accused the dairy's owner, David Funk, and others of engaging in criminal conspiracy to bring the veterinarians to the U.S. illegally for the purpose of forced labor according to the reports published in capitalpress.com.
The plaintiffs claimed the defendants conspired to recruit them under false pretense to work as animal scientists but instead forced them to work long hours under arduous conditions as low-wage general laborers.
The lawsuit claimed the defendants violated the forced labor and human trafficking provisions of...