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Al Meyerhoff, famed labor lawyer, dies at 61

By Richard Binder

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Al Meyerhoff, a prominent environmental and labor lawyer whose landmark cases included the 2002 settlement of a class-action lawsuit against some of America's biggest clothing retailers that alleged sweatshop abuses on the island of Saipan, died December 21st of complications related to cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

The lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 immigrant Saipan workers alleged a pattern of long hours, low pay and other objectionable working conditions in garment factories that produce more than $1 billion of clothing annually for U.S. stores. Recruited mainly from nearby Asian nations, workers toiled in what Meyerhoff called "indentured servitude." The $20-million out-of-court settlement of the suit known as Doe vs. the Gap involved more than 20 major U.S. retailers.

More than a month ago, Meyerhoff learned that a rare blood disorder that had been diagnosed a year ago had turned into leukemia.

Read full obituary here.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).

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