Staten Island Pizza Fight
Veers into Demand for Passports in
EDNY Breaking Bread Case
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
EDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Oct 22 –
A lawsuit about a Staten
Island pizzeria / restaurant’s
payments to its workers veered
into an immigration dispute on
October 22.
The
hearing was held by U.S.
District Court for the Eastern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Marcia M.
Henry held a hearing; Inner
City Press, on the EDNY beat,
covered it.
It is
Sanchez Ortega, et al. v.
Breaking Bread SI Inc.
including its owner Nicholas
R. Cammarato. The defendants’
lawyer said plaintiffs’ demand
before a mediator was
unreasonable, with “zero
chance” of settlement.
Let’s
focus on the present
situation, Judge Henry said.
Soon
defendants’ lawyer said, the
plaintiffs are asking for
money when they were out of
the country on vacation. If
under discover we could get
their passports–
No, the
plaintiffs’ lawyer cut in. We
need a ruling on this. There
is no reason to bring
immigration into
this.
Breaking Bread
will NOT be getting these
workers’ passports. But they
may get information related to
holding other jobs and even
flight information – just not
immigration. There are many to
see this, just as there are a
range of review of the
restaurant (which some call
just a pizzeria), see range here
Mr.
Cammarato will be deposed, if
at all, in the last week of
January. And Judge Henry will
meet the parties in early
February. Inner City Press is
on the case, on the EDNY
beat.
The case is
Sanchez Ortega v. Breaking
Bread SI Inc. et al,
1:25-cv-7180 (Gonzalez /
Henry)
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