Hotel Chains Get Sex Trafficking Claims Trimmed in California

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc. and Choice Hotels International Inc. successfully challenged aspects of a suit alleging the chains profited from the sex trafficking of a minor. A federal judge in northern California partially granted motions to dismiss claims under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.

The plaintiff, identified only as B.M., claims she was trafficked, sexually exploited, and victimized repeatedly at Wyndham and Choice brand hotels in California.

Each of the hotels knowingly benefited from facilitating the sex trafficking venture in which she was victimized, the suit said, and the hotels should have known she was being sex trafficked, ...