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  • 标题:Exploitation
  • 本地全文:下载
  • 作者:Hill, John Lawrence
  • 期刊名称:Cornell Law Review
  • 印刷版ISSN:0010-8847
  • 出版年度:1994
  • 卷号:79
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:631
  • 出版社:Cornell Law Library
  • 摘要:Introduction Consider the following cases: 1) A dance hall studio persuades a desperately lonely and depressed widow to purchase $ 50,000 in dance lessons by convincing her that she has a talent for dancing. The payment for the lessons requires her to sell everything she owns, including her home. 1 2) A ticket scalper outside a sold-out Bruce Springsteen concert charges a fan $ 150 for a ticket that he purchased for $ 25. 3) A quack physician convinces the distraught father of a dying son that she can cure the son by an unorthodox method. In desperation, the father pays for the treatment, which is ultimately ineffective. 4) A pimp first seduces a young girl and then entices her into a life of prostitution. 5) A poor, uneducated woman enters an agreement to purchase some household furniture on an installment contract with a clause granting the seller a cross-collateral security interest in the furniture. Over a period of years, the buyer purchases $ 1200 worth of furniture. With $ 164 in payment outstanding, she purchases another item and then defaults on the payment for this item. The seller then repossesses all of the furniture. 2 6) A migrant farm laborer from El Salvador picks oranges at a rate well below market value, but higher than that paid for similar work in the laborer's homeland. 7) An educated young woman's daughter is dying of a curable disease that requires an expensive operation. After exhausting all alternatives, she becomes the mistress ...
  • 关键词:Surrogate mothers; Human experimentation in medicine; Ethical aspects; Donation of organs; tissues; etc; Prisoners; Extenuating circumstances
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