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unusual facts about IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez



Arturo G. Álvarez

Arturo G. Alvarez started his career as a performer in 1994 when he was cast in Grease (musical) at the Hidalgo Theater in Mexico City by Julissa, the producer and adaptor of the musical.

Chico Alvarez

Alfred "Chico" Alvarez (1920–1992), Canadian trumpeter and session musician with Stan Kenton

Commonwealth Christian Academy

(also called "CCAFI" or simply "the CCA") is an institution of higher learning (high school) located at 185 IBP Road, Brgy.

Fast Food Nation

Schlosser discusses his findings on meat packing companies IBP, Inc. and on Kenny Dobbins.

IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez

Workers for the Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. (IBP, Inc.), now known as Tyson Foods, Inc., filed a class-action lawsuit requesting reparations for unpaid wages.

Integrative Body Psychotherapy

The somatic orientation of IBP uses components of several somatic therapies including Alexander technique, Bioenergetics, Feldenkrais body work, and the evocative, enlivening and integrating effect of Yogic and Reichian breath work.

Luis F. Alvarez

His father was Eugenio Fernández, who was in charge of the business and palace affairs in Madrid of don Francisco de Paula, one of the royal princes.

Two of Álvarez's children would rise to national prominence: Mabel Alvarez became a well-known artist and oil painter, and Walter C. Alvarez became a noted physician.

In 1895, Álvarez resigned his position in Waialua to prepare himself for work as Superintendent of a new experimental hospital for the treatment of leprosy which was to be established in Kalihi, a suburb of Honolulu.

His grandson and great-grandson have also become well known: Luis Walter Alvarez, a physicist and Nobel Prize winner; and Walter Alvarez, Professor of Geology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mabel Alvarez

Her father, Luis F. Alvarez, a physician, was involved with the leprosy research begun by the legendary Father Damien.

Her brother, Walter C. Alvarez, would later distinguish himself as a physician and author.

Machaín

Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, a cause of action must be universally recognized by the law of nations as a prohibited norm in order to be actionable

United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992), decision by the United States Supreme Court

Teamsters for a Democratic Union

In June 1999, 1,200 Teamsters walked off the job at the IBP (now Tyson) meatpacking plant in Pasco, Washington after management fired shop floor leaders who protested unsafe conditions.

United States v. Alvarez-Machain

Despite vigorous protests from the Mexican government, Álvarez was tried in United States District Court in Los Angeles; the trial, in which his defense focused intensely on the legality of the arrest, resulted in an acquittal.

Walter Alvarez

Alvarez and his father Luis W. Alvarez are most widely known for their discovery (with Frank Asaro and Helen Michel) that a clay layer occurring right at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary was highly enriched in the element iridium.

His grandfather was the famed physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather, Spanish-born Luis F. Alvarez, worked as a doctor in Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy.

Walter C. Alvarez

:For his grandson, the American geology professor, see Walter Alvarez.

Alvarez was married to the former Harriet Skidmore Smythe and the couple had four children: Gladys, Luis, Robert and Bernice.


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