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Annie McAdams PC: Human Trafficking Survivor Sues Backpage.com, Hotels and Truck Stops
A Texas human trafficking survivor has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against Backpage.com and the Houston-area hotels and truck stops where she was allegedly exploited, according to her lawyers at Annie McAdams PC and Sico Hoelscher Harris & Braugh LLP.
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Facebook responds to lawsuit accusing it of complicity with sex traffickers
Facebook has responded to a lawsuit in which an alleged sex trafficking victim claims the social network was instrumental in her grooming and knew that its platform was being used to lure children into prostitution.
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Child sex trafficking victim sues ‘morally bankrupt’ Facebook
A Texas woman is suing the social media giant Facebook, saying it was complicit in the circumstances that led to her being sex trafficked as a child.
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Facebook Accused By Trafficking Survivor Of Aiding Abuse
A human trafficking survivor has sued Facebook, Backpage.com and others in Texas state court, accusing the social media giant and the now-defunct classified ads website of providing an unrestricted platform for sex traffiking.
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Houston Law School Legend ‘Coach’ T. Gerald Treece Dies
T. Gerald Treece, a beloved and legendary figure at South Texas College of Law who led its nationally recognized moot court and mock trial competition teams to many national championships, died Monday after a long illness. He was 75.
Houston sex trafficking victim sues Facebook for gross negligence
Facebook, one of the world's largest social media companies, is now being sued for its failure to stop facilitating human trafficking on its website. The lawsuit was filed in Harris County District Court on Monday, October 1.
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Houston Woman Sues Facebook Claiming She Was Sex Trafficked
Facebook and Backpage.com were both named in a lawsuit that claims the social media sites were complicit in sex and human trafficking.
Houston woman sues Facebook, says website aided in her being sex trafficked as a child
Facebook is being sued by a Houston woman who says the social media giant’s “morally bankrupt corporate culture” left her prey to a predatory pimp who drew her into sex trafficking as a child.
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Human traffickers using emojis, social media to lure victims
Rose, camcorder, growing heart, jet plane, crown. Those words don’t make sense written in a sentence, but according to human trafficking experts at the Roy Maas Youth Alternatives, in the language of emojis for traffickers that sentence reads 'to pay money to record having sex with an underage person who is being trafficked by a pimp.'
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Una mujer denunció a Facebook por complicidad con una red de tráfico sexual de la que fue víctima
La denunciante, que logró escapar de una organización de trata que la secuestró y la explotó cuando tenía 15 años, sostuvo que la plataforma ofrece a los criminales un medio sin restricciones para "acosar, reclutar, preparar y extorsionar a menores para el comercio sexual"
Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Enabling Human Traffickers
A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into the sex trade.”
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Lawsuit accuses Facebook of enabling human traffickers
The lawsuit was filed Monday in Houston against Facebook, the shuttered classifieds site Backpage.com and the owners of two Houston hotels.
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Lawsuit accuses Facebook of enabling human traffickers
The lawsuit was filed Monday in Houston against Facebook, the shuttered classifieds site Backpage.com and the owners of two Houston hotels.
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Lawsuit Claims Facebook Failed to Protect Sex Trafficking Victim
A Texas woman who was a victim of sex trafficking when she was just 15 years old is suing Facebook, claiming the social media platform did nothing to protect her from being recruited by a trafficker disguised as a so-called "friend."
READ MORE Pioneering Lawsuit About Human Trafficking And Sexual Exploitation Filed In Houston
Two Texas lawyers filed a pioneering civil lawsuit in Houston this week related to human trafficking and sexual exploitation. It targets a multitude of companies and businesses as defendants, several of them with highly recognizable names.
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Nearly 500 Woodlands residents file flood-related lawsuit against developers, engineering firm
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Ruling Against Facebook In Sex Trafficking Case Threatens Key Legal Shield For Social Media Platforms
Facebook can’t be sued for what people say on its platform, but it can be for letting sex traffickers get away with using the site as a recruiting tool, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday, opening the door to more lawsuits and setting up a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that could erode a key legal protection for social media companies.
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Second civil lawsuit filed Wednesday, claims dozens more Houston businesses turned a blind eye to human trafficking
Less than a month after a Houston sex trafficking victim filed a ground-breaking civil lawsuit against several hotels, truck stops and websites; a second victim– Jane Doe #2 has come forward.
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Sex Trafficking via Facebook Sets Off a Lawyer’s Novel Crusade
A personal injury lawyer in Houston is using an unusual argument to try to upend the internet's most vital law.
READ MORE Sex Trafficking Victim Files Suit Against Craigslist And Backpage
Houston Attorney Annie McAdams files human trafficking lawsuit against craigslist.com and backpage.com.
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Sex trafficking victim suing truck stops, hotel for profiting from her suffering
A sex trafficking victim from Houston is taking Backpage.com and several well-known truck stops and hotel chains to court, claiming they profited from her suffering.
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Facebook sued for allegedly enabling human trafficking
A Texas woman is suing Facebook for allegedly facilitating sex trafficking on its platform.
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Texas Survivor’s Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Enabling Human Traffickers
A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into the sex trade.”
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Lawsuit accused Facebook of enabling human traffickers
A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to "stalk, exploit, recruit, groom and extort children into the sex trade."
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Vittima di stupro fa causa a Facebook
Una donna texana, vittima di stupro e traffico di esseri umani quando era minorenne, ha fatto causa a Facebook sostenendo che il social offre ai trafficanti un modo illimitato per "perseguitare e portare i bambini nel mercato del sesso".
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Well-known hotels, businesses named in groundbreaking sex trafficking lawsuit
An 82-page civil suit was filed on behalf of a 19-year-old sex trafficking victim, known only as "Jane Doe No. 1" to protect her identity.
Woodlands Residents Sue Companies Over Design of Subdivision That Flooded in Harvey
The civil lawsuit filed this week in Harris County district court accuses The Woodlands Land Development Company L.P., the Howard Hughes Corporation and LJA Engineering Inc. of allowing inadequate home elevations in the Village of Creekside Park, Timarron and Timarron Lakes despite decades of flooding from nearby Spring Creek.