Larry A. Pullum v. State of Tennessee

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• holding that threat of deportation constitutes both “abuse of law or legal process” and “serious harm”
• finding that plaintiff plausibly alleged claims for forced labor under subsection 1589(a)(3) by providing the court with explicit threats made by his employer to “expose him to deportation” finding that the threats “constituted a claim of abuse of the legal process.”
• reversing dismissal of a TVPA claim where plaintiff alleged that the defendant-employer failed to pay him the prevailing wage under the INA and failed to submit an H-2B petition to immigration authorities
• “Section 1590 employs the disjunctive ‘or’ in delineating the ways in which a defendant can violate the statute.”
• “[D]efendants’ threat that they would withdraw [plaintiff’s] sponsorship could plausibly be understood as a scheme to convince him that he would be harmed by deportation if he left or asked for overtime pay.”
• threat to expose plaintiff to deportation 2 This is not only a criminal statute; the TVPA creates a civil cause of action for victims of alleged human trafficking. See 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a). plausibly constituted violation of § 1589(a)(3)

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