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5/12/2015
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When:
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5/12/2015
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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Where:
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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
New York, New York
United States
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Presenter:
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One World Financial Center, 200 Liberty Street
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Co-hosted by:
Cadwalader
Cadwalader
Alumni Network
Center
for Diversity & Inclusion
In this reenactment of a landmark employment
discrimination case, we examine the proceedings that led to the Supreme Court’s
decision in Wards Cove Packing
Co. v. Atonio.Asian Pacific Americans have been a part of the
salmon canning industry in Alaska since the late 1800s. Starting in the 1920s,
Filipinos became a main work force in the Alaskan canneries, where they were
relegated to fish house jobs, working long hours in poor conditions for low
pay.In the 1970s, led by Filipino activists, the workers organized and
filed three class actions, including Wards
Cove.After a lengthy trial and multiple proceedings before
the Ninth Circuit, the case reached the United States Supreme Court in
1989.
This presentation by members of the Asian American Bar Association of New York,
including Cadwalader attorneys and the Honorable Denny Chin of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will tell the story of the Wards Cove
workers through narration, reenactment of court proceedings, and historic
photographs.
5:30
p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
- Registration & Networking
6:00 p.m. - 7:15
p.m. -
Reenactment
7:15 p.m. - 9:00
p.m. - Wine
Tasting Reception
NY CLE credit will be
offered.
Click here to RSVP by Tuesday,
May 5.
If you have any questions
about this event, please contact Taylor Biancone at taylor.biancone@cwt.com.
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