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Associated Press - November 20, 2009 10:35 AM ET
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a meeting between Cintas Corp. and the widow of a former employee who is suing the company to try to settle her 2007 wrongful death lawsuit.
The order this week from U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul J. Cleary is a last attempt to settle the case before a jury trial would begin in April.
Amalia Diaz Torres is suing Cincinnati-based Cintas, claiming the company's plant managers knew about - and even encouraged - the dangerous working practices that led to the death of her husband, Eleazar Torres-Gomez, in 2007.
Cintas, the nation's largest uniform supplier, has denied those allegations, saying it never puts profits over worker safety.
During a meeting in March, both sides failed to reach an out-of-court agreement.
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