Failure To Join Government Parties In Detainees’ Wage Suit Does Not Doom Claims

Mealey's (May 1, 2018, 10:29 AM EDT) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A Washington federal judge on April 26 declined to dismiss a class complaint by immigration detainees seeking minimum wages for their work based on the failure to join government parties, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (collectively, ICE) are not necessary or indispensable parties (Chao Chen v. The GEO Group Inc., No. 17-5769, W.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70664)....