NEW YORK --- Harvey Weinstein's lawyers said the movie mogul is not a sex trafficker, despite claims in a class-action lawsuit. The lawyers in a court filing late Monday urged U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to toss out civil claims by women that claim Weinstein tried to coerce sex in return for movie roles or career enhancement. Weinstein attorneys Elior Shiloh and Alan Dershowitz said the women's lawyers are trying to stretch a law written to counteract modern-day slavery far beyond what Congress could have imagined. "Try as plaintiffs might, they have failed to show that this is a sex trafficking case," they wrote of the effort to rely on the Justice for Victims ...
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