High Court To Review Nestlé, Cargill Child Slavery Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear Nestlé and Cargill’s challenges to a Ninth Circuit ruling leaving the companies on the hook for allegations that they benefited from African child labor. The decision tees up a potential ruling on whether U.S. corporations can be liable for human rights abuses abroad. The high court granted the food manufacturers’ petitions for the higher court’s review of the lower court’s ruling in two now-consolidated cases. The companies say the Ninth Circuit’s decision that they could be liable under the Alien Tort Statute conflicts with rulings from the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits,...
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