Sweet wrote that though the case is “not an archetypal sex trafficking action”, Noble had a plausible case that Weinstein may have broken the sex trafficking law.
A US federal judge has ruled that a British woman’s sex-trafficking lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein can go ahead – setting the stage for a landmark case.
The judge agreed to a motion to remove Harvey Weinstein’s brother, Robert Weinstein, from the case.
Weinstein has tried to get the case thrown out, with his lawyers arguing that because no money and nothing of value changed hands, the allegations did not amount to sex trafficking.