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CFC: No "Border Patrol" Servitude
In D & D Land Holdings v. United States, No. 06-877L (filed under seal: June 25, 2008, reissued: June 30, 2008), the Court of Federal Claims held the landowner's claim that the Border Patrol's activities on its land resulted in...

Voluntary Servitude by Deception
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude Definition of Servitude: 1 : a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life 2 : a right by which something (as a piece of land) owned by one person is subject to a specified use or enjoyment by another To see the rest of the article, visit the Sex Offender Issues blog...

Involuntary Servitude Theorizing
Both sides of the abortion debate invoke analogies to slavery. Recently, in the National Review Online, Michael Novak's article "Notre Dame Disgrace" criticizes the university for inviting Barak Obama, arguing that "I doubt very much whether the University of Notre...

Employment Law: Involuntary Servitude
Iowa Law Blog caught an unusual employment law case out of New York in A Modern Case of Involutary Servitude. This one is so unusual that I am quoting it at length:Ten nurses from the Philippines were hired to work in nursing homes caring for chronically ill children dependent on ventilators...

Tennessee Uses Sexual Servitude Statute for First Time
Two Tennessee men are being charged using a sexual servitude statute for the first time in the state's history. As Ann Bartow appropriately noted, "I wonder how many times they didn?t think forced prostitution was 'serious enough' to do so...