Immigrant laborers in fair wage litigation are not obligated to turn over papers on their immigration status or their tax returns in discovery, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.

Southern District Magistrate Judge James Francis said that Alice’s Tea Cup, which has three restaurants in Manhattan, is not entitled to the material in a suit brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §201.

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