Case: Wage & Hour/Unpaid Wages (C.D. Cal.)

A California federal district court denied Shirley Lai’s motion to dismiss claims brought by two Chinese Buddhist nuns under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and California labor laws, finding that the ministerial and ecclesiastical abstention doctrines did not apply, and that plaintiffs sufficiently alleged they were subjected to forced labor through physical restraint, threats of deportation, and abuse of their immigration status.

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