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Government Politics 

10th Circuit Upholds New Districts in Navajo Voting Rights Case

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 AMANDA PAMPURO
10th circuit, Backpage.com, Native Americans, redistricting, schools, tribal issues, Utah

The 10th Circuit Tuesday approved new school board and county commission election districts for Utah’s geographically largest county, finding that a lower court properly sided with the Navajo Nation, which claimed that the old districts were unconstitutional. 

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Criminal Technology 

Backpage.com, CEO Plead Guilty in Sex-Trafficking Crackdown

April 12, 2018 DAVID LEE
Backpage.com, money laundering, plea deal, sex trafficking

Texas authorities said Thursday that Backpage.com will plead guilty to human trafficking and its leader will plead guilty to money laundering, one week after the classified ad website was seized by federal officials.

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Criminal Technology 

Backpage.com Officials Indicted as Feds Shut Down Site

April 9, 2018April 10, 2018 NATHAN SOLIS
Backpage.com, internet, money laundering, prostitution, sex trafficking

Federal prosecutors have charged the creators of the website Backpage.com, one of the largest web forums for classified ads, with facilitating prostitution and conspiracy to launder money in a 93-count indictment unsealed Monday in Arizona.

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Criminal Government Technology 

Feds Seize Backpage.com, Websites in Enforcement Action

April 6, 2018April 9, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Backpage.com, internet, sex trafficking

Federal law enforcement authorities are in the process of seizing online classified site Backpage.com and its affiliated websites.

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Government Regional 

Missouri AG Boosts Trafficking Task Force After Win Over Backpage

November 30, 2017November 30, 2017 JOE HARRIS
attorneys general, Backpage.com, Missouri, Regional6, sex trafficking

Missouri Attorney General Joshua Hawley announced plans Thursday to ramp up his anti-sex trafficking efforts, two days after a federal judge tossed a lawsuit against his office filed by notorious ad website Backpage.com.

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Criminal 

California Can Prosecute Backpage.com Execs on Money Laundering Charges

August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 NICK CAHILL
Backpage.com, California, children, money laundering, sex trafficking

California will pursue felony charges for the second time against Backpage.com after a state judge Wednesday allowed money laundering counts to stand, though he dismissed pimping charges against the website’s executives.

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Uncategorized 

Missouri Attorney General Unloads on Backpage.com

August 2, 2017August 9, 2017 JOE HARRIS
Backpage.com, internet, Missouri, sex trafficking

Missouri’s attorney general Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss Backpage.com’s “frivolous” constitutional lawsuit, saying “compelling evidence” shows that Backpage creates and controls ads “for the sexual exploitation and rape of human-trafficking victims, including minors.”

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Criminal Entertainment 

Missouri Attorney General Calls Backpage.com’s Lawsuit Frivolous

July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 JOE HARRIS
Backpage.com, First Amendment, internet, Missouri, trafficking

Backpage.com has sued Missouri’s attorney general, claiming his demand for information about human trafficking on its website is unconstitutional — a lawsuit the attorney general quickly denounced as frivolous, saying, “there is no First Amendment right to engage in human trafficking.”

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Personal Injury 

Child Sex Trade

June 13, 2017June 15, 2017 ROBERT KAHN
Backpage.com, children, internet, sex trafficking

Three Jane Does claims in a federal complaint that Backpage.com, its CEO Carl Ferrer and part-owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin failed to stop its website users from trafficking them in the child sex trade.

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Business Criminal 

Illinois Mom Blames Backpage.com for Daughter’s Murder

May 17, 2017May 22, 2017 LISA KLEIN
Backpage.com, battery, conspiracy, Illinois, internet, murder, National5, rape, trafficking, Wrongful Death

The notorious ad website Backpage.com, accused multiple times of assisting in online sex-trafficking, is to blame for the rape and murder of a Chicago teen last year, her mother claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

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Civil Rights Government Media Politics Technology 

Sex Workers Push Back Against Anti-Trafficking Bill

April 25, 2017August 23, 2017 BRANDI BUCHMAN
Backpage.com, Child Abuse, internet, liability, prostitution, sex, sex trafficking, telecommunications, U.S. House of Representatives

A Republican lawmaker’s plan to protect children from being trafficked for sex over the internet drew opposition from sex worker advocates Monday.

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Business Civil Rights Media 

Women’s Shelters Sue Backpage in Two States

February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 EMMA GANNON
Backpage.com, sex trafficking, women's rights

Forced to shut down its de facto sex trafficking adults-only classified ad section by a Senate subcommittee, BackPage.com and affiliates have been slapped with federal lawsuits on both ends of the country by nonprofit shelters for women and children.

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Business Government 

Backpage.com Backs Down on Its Online Sex Ads

January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 DAVID LEE
Backpage.com, sex trafficking, U.S. Senate

Backpage.com took down its adult classifieds section from its website Monday night, hours before its executives refused to answer questions from a Senate panel investigating pimping and child sex trafficking allegations.

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Appeals Civil Rights 

Supreme Court Tosses Suit Against Backpage.com

January 9, 2017 BARBARA LEONARD
Backpage.com, sex trafficking, U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court put an end Monday to claims by a trio who say that they were trafficked for underage sex via Backpage.com, the embattled classifieds website.

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Business Criminal Latest Headlines Media 

Judge Likely to Toss Backpage Pimping Charges

November 16, 2016November 17, 2016 NICK CAHILL
Backpage.com, California, Free Speech, internet, Secondary, sex

A California state judge said Wednesday he’s likely to throw out pimping charges against a trio of Backpage.com executives arrested last month in a joint investigation between Texas and California officials.

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