Filipino Nurses Move Forward in Tennessee Trafficking Act Case

A group of registered nurses brought from the Philippines to work at US medical facilities advanced claims under federal and state laws prohibiting human trafficking.

The nurses plausibly alleged defendant National Health Corp. and four of its individual officers violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and multiple state laws, the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee said Wednesday in an order refusing to dismiss the case.

They pleaded facts allowing the court to reasonably infer that the defendants lied to them to get them …