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Theories of coercion exist across multiple disciplines to explicate the ability of one actor, the coercer, to diminish the free will of another, the coercee, in the absence of overt physical force. A valid claim of coercion places legal blame on the coercer or relinquishes the coercee from legal responsibility for a coerced act or omission. Defining the point at which coercion occurs, however, is the conceptually more difficult task. Recently, coercion has emerged as a significant source of analytic concern in a developing area of the law-contemporary involuntary labor or human trafficking. It is in this setting where coercion is explicitly codified as a fundamental legal element in human-trafficking crimes. However, the laws addressing human trafficking continue to struggle with deline...
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Migrant workers often incur high debt to pay recruitment fees for placement as guest workers in the United States.1 Recruiters regularly use false promises regarding working conditions and earnings opportunities to extract exorbitant fees. Workers then find low pay and dangerous conditions. Yet many workers rightly fear complaints will lead to deportation, leaving them unable to repay their debts. Theoretically, workers are protected by H-2 program regulations that prohibit shifting recruiting costs to workers. Yet these prohibitions mean little if they do not permit plaintiffs to recover the underlying fees in private actions against employers and recruiters. The H-2 regulations do not include a private right of action, and the Fair Labor Standards Act applies only in limited circumsta...
... the effects test hinges on how the court defines "effects." The claim would likely fail if "effects...); § 1590 (trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor) ...
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... a doctrine by which Congress was to define the substance of what the legislation enacted purs...86, 14 Stat. 50, and the Peonage Abolition Act, ch. 187, 14 Stat. 546, 18 U.S.C. §...
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...Define Certain Workplace-Related Crimes (e.g., Coercive o... genital mutilation; being held hostage; peonage; involuntary servitude; slave trade; kidnapping; a...
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.... The court then defined serious harm exactly as described in the statute, .... . in the course of" trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude or forced labor. 1...
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...Second, few scholars clearly define what they mean by "Civil Rights" or "Black Power,"...And when peonage, convict leasing and vagrancy laws failed to preve...
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...e., peonage), or (3) the master's use of fraud or deceit to ob... II . Federal crimes are defined by Congress, and so long as Congress acts within i...
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..., other circuits (some of which have defined "harboring" more broadly than we have in Ozcelik a..., sections 1581-1588 (relating to peonage and slavery),â after âsection 1513 (rela...
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... their being trafficked.'' The regulation defines ``ameliorative assistance'' to include assistance ... of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. It does not mean mere p...
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One hundred fifty years ago, on March 7, 1857, Justice Roger Taney, of the U.S. Supreme Court, put, in constitutional perpetuity, Blacks in slavery. Blacks were promised that the Reconstruction Amendments would undo the holding in Dred Scott. Instead, they reaffirmed Dred Scott. This was a cruel hoax on a people who had fought gallantly to save the Union. In deciding that Africans lacked standing to redress grievances in federal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court also decided Dred Scott's reparation claim. Scott was seeking distributive justice. This prompted Chief Justice Roger Taney to say, "No Negro has any rights that whites are bound to respect. The Fourteenth Amendment enshrines Taney"s saying since it failed to accord to Blacks political, civil and human rights. This is the sine qua...
... down with political duties to ensure our peonage in perpetuity. After all of our apparent successes...Although the Constitution failed to define citizenship, white women, enslaved Africans and In...
