In the wake of two important decisions concerning undocumented aliens, I am happy to provide you an extremely helpful article that I promised a week ago — "Hoffman Plastic Compounds v. NLRB: Have Undocumented Aliens Lost the Right to Recover Unearned Lost Wages as Damages in Personal Injury Actions? " (see reprint here: Download SCAN_35300573_000.pdf) and accompanying discover documents (Download SCAN_35300592_000.pdf).  As stated in the prior post, Edwin Smith and Reed Podell wrote the article, and their firm was involved in both Balbuena v. IDR Realty, Inc. and Sanango v. 200 E. 16th Str. Hous. Corp.

The New York State Bar Association Torts, Insurance & Compensation Law Section Journal granted me permission to reprint this article.   The article originally appeared in the publication’s Summer 2003 Vol. 32, No. 1 issue.