Punitive Damage

Fight against wage theft reignites in Minnesota as complaints rise – Star Tribune
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Fight against wage theft reignites in Minnesota as complaints rise – Star Tribune

Roberto Jacobo is an immigrant who estimates he lost $90,000 in income over 15 years as a home remodeler because his employers did not pay him his owed overtime or prevailing wage on jobs. For years he stayed quiet, afraid his employers would retaliate because he is an immigrant. Then he decided enough is enough…

Fight against wage theft reignites in Minnesota as complaints rise
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Fight against wage theft reignites in Minnesota as complaints rise

Roberto Jacobo is an immigrant who estimates he lost $90,000 in income over 15 years as a home remodeler because his employers did not pay him his owed overtime or prevailing wage on jobs. For years he stayed quiet, afraid his employers would retaliate because he is an immigrant. Then he decided enough is enough…

Ontario Trial Court Considers Statutory Tort Of Human Trafficking For The First Time – Canada
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Ontario Trial Court Considers Statutory Tort Of Human Trafficking For The First Time – Canada

In Osmani v. Universal Structural Restorations Ltd., an Ontario court dismissed a claim that an employer engaged in the tort of human trafficking in respect of a temporary foreign worker. Background The Plaintiff was born in Albania. He arrived in Canada in 2017 and started working for his employer in December 2018. He was initially…

Kevin Spacey Wants to Limit Testimony in Sex Assault Trial – Law & Crime
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Kevin Spacey Wants to Limit Testimony in Sex Assault Trial – Law & Crime

Lawyers for actor Kevin Spacey are trying to bar an expert who testified in Ghislaine Maxwell‘s criminal sex trafficking trial from testifying about the credibility of Spacey’s accuser in a civil sexual assault trial scheduled to begin next week. A memorandum filed Monday in the Southern District of New York calls psychologist Lisa Rocchio‘s expected…

Kevin Spacey Seeks to Limit Testimony of Expert Witness From Ghislaine Maxwell Case as His Own Civil Sexual Assault Trial Nears
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Kevin Spacey Seeks to Limit Testimony of Expert Witness From Ghislaine Maxwell Case as His Own Civil Sexual Assault Trial Nears

Actor Kevin Spacey leaves the Central Criminal Court on July 14, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images.) Lawyers for actor Kevin Spacey are trying to bar an expert who testified in Ghislaine Maxwell‘s criminal sex trafficking trial from testifying about the credibility of Spacey’s accuser in a civil sexual assault trial scheduled…

The fight for human labor trafficking (modern day slavery) victims continues
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The fight for human labor trafficking (modern day slavery) victims continues

Q: MY employer brought me to America to work as live-in nanny for their youngest child. I would be paid $1,000 per month with weekends off.  When we arrived in Los Angeles, my employer took my passport. I was then made to work 7 days a week, up to 16 hours per day, taking care…

R. Kelly Sues Detention Facility for “Cruel and Unusual Punishment” Under Suicide Watch
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R. Kelly Sues Detention Facility for “Cruel and Unusual Punishment” Under Suicide Watch

R. Kelly is suing the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn, where he’s been incarcerated since being sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and racketeering charges, after being placed under suicide watch despite having no thoughts of self-harm. In the suit, which names the MDC facility and its warden Heriberto Tellez, the disgraced…