Plaintiffs need not be US citizens to sue. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1581 et seq. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, Public Law 106-386, as amended, declares illegal the trafficking in persons, including forced labor, involuntary servitude, slavery and sex trafficking.18 USC § 1595 creates a private right of action in US federal court for victims of such conduct, allowing them to collect actual damages, punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees.Section 1596 of Title 18 establishes that the remedy applies extraterritorially.

Plaintiffs need not be US citizens to sue. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1581 et seq. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, Public Law 106-386, as amended, declares illegal the trafficking in persons, including forced labor, involuntary servitude, slavery and sex trafficking.18 USC § 1595 creates a private right of action in US federal court for victims of such conduct, allowing them to collect actual damages, punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees.Section 1596 of Title 18 establishes that the remedy applies extraterritorially.

Plaintiffs need not be US citizens to sue. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1581 et seq. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, Public Law 106-386, as amended, declares illegal the trafficking in persons, including forced labor, involuntary servitude, slavery and sex trafficking.18 USC § 1595 creates a private right of action in US federal court for victims of such conduct, allowing them to collect actual damages, punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees.Section 1596 of Title 18 establishes that the remedy applies extraterritorially.

Plaintiffs need not be US citizens to sue. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1581 et seq. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, Public Law 106-386, as amended, declares illegal the trafficking in persons, including forced labor, involuntary servitude, slavery and sex trafficking.18 USC § 1595 creates a private right of action in US federal court for victims of such conduct, allowing them to collect actual damages, punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees.Section 1596 of Title 18 establishes that the remedy applies extraterritorially.

The Saipan complaint includes allegations that pursuant to various agreements that were negotiated and executed between the U.S. retailers and Saipan factory owners, the defendants formed a series of association-in-fact enterprises for the purpose of committing numerous acts of racketeering. It further alleges that by recruiting and employing thousands of indentured workers required to pay substantial recruitment fees, waive basic civil rights, and then work in sweatshop conditions, the various factories and retailers alike committed and/or aided and abetted violations of federal and statutory law constituting a pattern of racketeering activity, including violating the Anti-Peonage Statute (18 U.S.C. §1581) and the Hobbs Act prohibiting extortion (18 U.S.C. §1951). 2.