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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