Bloomberg Law
July 5, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

Nestle Won’t Get Full Ninth Circuit Review of Slave Labor Case

Perry Cooper
Perry Cooper
Reporter

Nestle SA and Cargill Inc. are stuck with a Ninth Circuit decision reviving a class action filed by six former child slaves from Mali who sought to hold the cocoa importers liable for their captivity and mistreatment on farms in neighboring Ivory Coast.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the companies’ request for en banc review July 5, but issued an amended order adding that the plaintiffs have standing to sue.

A three-judge panel of the court held in October 2018 that the Alien Tort Statute covers allegations that the companies aided and abetted slave labor. ...

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