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appropriate period of time but not less than the
duration of the current contract * * *.
In February 1992, the Union, its local chapter, and several
individuals (the Plaintiffs) filed a class action against AHP and
various other individuals and entities (the Defendants) in the
District Court. The class action complaint (the Complaint)
stated in its preliminary statement that the Defendants:
did unlawfully and without justification violate federal
Racketeering laws and intentionally interfere with the
protected right of Plaintiffs, including the prospective
economic advantages, enjoyed by the herein described class
of former Elkhart * * * employees.
The Complaint identified several individual plaintiffs as
typical class representatives. An example of a paragraph
identifying an individual class member is as follows:
Defendants' decision to relocate and transfer jobs to
Puerto Rico has caused [individual class representative] a
great personal loss consisting of his being terminated in
December, 1989. [Individual class representative] has since
found no steady work and is forced to maintain temporary
employment with no medical benefits. Defendants' actions,
which provoked his unemployment, caused him great emotional
distress, feelings of low self esteem and self worth.
[Individual class representative] now earns much less and
lost fringe benefits due to his being terminated by
Defendants.
Other individual class representatives were similarly
identified. The Complaint alleged factually in great detail that
the Defendants, in the course of a scheme reasonably calculated
to defraud the plaintiffs, to evade State and Federal taxes, and
to avoid compliance with various other Federal and Puerto Rican
laws, violated Federal racketeering laws and interfered with the
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