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Holding a Jacksonville Hotel Accountable for Twenty-One Days of Captivity If someone you love spent three weeks locked in a hotel room on Blanding Boulevard — beaten daily, assaulted by strangers, traded like a thing while staff handed a key across the counter without a question — you are not asking whether the law applies. You are asking whether anyone will do anything about it. The answer our firm gives is the same one we give in every case where a commercial institution made money from human suffering it should have seen and chose not to: yes, and the path forward is stronger than the defense wants you to believe. Florida law gives trafficking survivors a civil remedy most states do not. Federal law gives them a decade — or, for a child, ten years from the day they turn eighteen. The hotel’s safety obligation did not vanish because the booking was paid in cash or because the man at the desk did not ask the right questions. The records the front desk generated, the cameras mounted over the lobby, and the franchise standards manual the property was supposed to follow are the spine of the case — and most…