Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, a racial discrimination suit filed by workers at an Alaska cannery, was decided more than 15 years ago. But in May it was argued again in a conference room at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York.
Some 150 lawyers came to watch a re-enactment produced by Cadwalader litigation partner Kathy Chin and her husband, Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. For nearly a decade the pair have been re-enacting important cases in Asian-American legal history for live audiences with help from members of the Asian American Bar Association of New York.
