The issue focused on the domestic workers themselves, who by some accounts were paid only a third of what a migrant could earn on the same days and pay rates they were seeking under the H-1B visa program. The case was set for trial after government attorneys filed a motion asking a federal appeals court last year to dismiss the case and instruct the district court to allow the lawsuit to proceed. But a judge last week rejected the government's request to dismiss the case because the plaintiffs are state plaintiffs and the government had failed