“We don't believe that has been done before, and to my knowledge other Backpage plaintiffs have not filed RICO or Thirteenth Amendment claims,” said a spokesman for the law firm handling the suit, Boies Schiller & Flexner. One of the attorneys is Orlando-based Karen Dyer. Legal Momentum is also representing the plaintiffs.Read the full story.
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Karen Chesley of Boies Schiller Flexner, who is litigating a civil case against Backpage.com in Florida launched last year with the women’s advocacy group Legal Momentum, said fears about expansive new liability for tech companies are overblown. “It would be a tortured reading of the bill to say that accepting seemingly legitimate ads, without more, would create liability for knowingly facilitating sex trafficking,” she said.
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On February 7, Legal Momentum and pro bono counsel David Boies filed suit in Arizona and Florida against Backpage.com, a website that facilitates child sex trafficking. The lawsuits seek damages on behalf of a trafficking survivor and two service providers that provide care to trafficking victims.
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December 2016 Legal Momentum and its national stakeholders, represented by David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, filed an amicus brief urging the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to decide in favor of the U.S. Senate in its action to require the website Backpage.com's parent company to comply with a Senate subpoena. The Senate is requesting information about Backpage.com as part of an investigation into its business practices. Last spring, the Senate held Backpage.com’s CEO, Carl Ferrer, in contempt of Congress for failing to appear at a Senate investigative hearing.
