{"id":245418,"date":"2017-01-31T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=245418"},"modified":"2017-01-31T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T20:06:09","slug":"court-awards-worker-235214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/court-awards-worker-235214\/","title":{"rendered":"Court awards worker $235,214 more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has awarded a foreign worker $235,214 in attorneys\u2019 fees and costs for prevailing in her lawsuit against her former employers for failing to pay her wages.<\/p>\n<p>In an order on Friday, Manglona awarded Yu Xuan, a Chinese national, $199,227.50 in attorneys\u2019 fees, $14,089.50 in other fees, and $21,897.19 in costs, for a total of $235,214.19.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona earlier awarded Xuan $132,677 in unpaid wages and in liquidated damages.<\/p>\n<p>The judge found investor Yang Tack Hwang and his two companies\u2014Joo Yeon Corp. and Se Young Corp.\u2014liable to pay Xuan the unpaid wages, liquidated damages, attorneys\u2019 fees, and costs.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys Mark Hanson, Bruce Berline, and Benjamin K. Petersburg, counsel for Xuan, demanded a total of $199,227.50 in attorneys\u2019 fees.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson, Berline, Petersburg also sought payment of $15,974.50 in paralegal and staff services and $21,897.19 in costs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has awarded a foreign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15334,14657,15335,15336],"class_list":["post-245418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-attorneys-mark-hanson","tag-se-young-corp","tag-yang-tack-hwang","tag-yu-xuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}