Castillo v. Case Farms of Ohio, Inc.
United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
96 F.Supp. 2d 578 (1999)
Case Farms (defendant) hired staffing agency Tempcorps to recruit workers in Texas for its Ohio chicken-processing plant; Tempcorps made specific promises to recruits about housing and transportation conditions that turned out to be grossly false, with workers instead housed in overcrowded, pest-infested conditions and transported in unsafe, seatless vans. The recruits (plaintiffs) sued Case Farms under a federal migrant-worker protection statute, relying on an agency theory to attribute Tempcorps's misrepresentations to Case Farms.
Whether a company's express delegation of authority to a recruiting agent to hire workers includes the implied authority to make representations about matters like housing and transportation necessary to carry out that recruitment.