U.S. Top Court Rejects Nestle Bid to Throw out Child Slavery Suit
Source: MSN/Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Nestle SA, the world's largest food maker, and two other companies to throw out a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for the use of child slaves to harvest cocoa in Ivory Coast.
The high court left in place a December 2014 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Nestle, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co and Cargill Inc filed by former victims of child slavery.
The plaintiffs, who were originally from Mali, contend the companies aided and abetted human rights violations through their active involvement in purchasing cocoa from Ivory Coast. While aware of the child slavery problem, the companies offered financial and technical assistance to local farmers in a bid to guarantee the cheapest source of cocoa, the plaintiffs said. The case focused in part on how lower court judges have interpreted a 2013 Supreme Court decision that made it harder for plaintiffs to sue corporations in U.S. courts for abuses alleged to have occurred overseas.
In its 2013 ruling in the Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co case, the court unanimously threw out a lawsuit by 12 people from Nigeria that accused British and Dutch-based Royal Dutch Shell of aiding state-sponsored torture and murder.
The court said the law under which the Nigerians brought the case, the 1789 Alien Tort Statute, was presumed to cover only violations of international law occurring in the United States. Violations elsewhere, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, must "touch and concern" U.S. territory "with sufficient force to displace the presumption."
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-top-court-rejects-nestle-bid-to-throw-out-child-slavery-suit/ar-CColvs?li=BBnb7Kz
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forest444
(5,902 posts)Real sweethearts compared to Monsatan, though.
http://patch.com/new-jersey/ramsey-nj/monsanto-charged-crimes-against-humanity
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)I like the 'M.' - so evil, they're unmentionable.
Archae
(46,345 posts)This is a group of mostly organic lobbyists, and this "trial" has no credibility whatsoever.
It's like the "trials" the sovereign citizens put on.
Monsatan's best-selling additive (and a favorite of some even here on DU, we now learn).
Archae
(46,345 posts)Hey, if I was still pushing a bullshit story like Trump and his supporters do, I'd avoid the question too.
harun
(11,348 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)most of the time.
Got anything else? I mean, besides more potty language and cat gifs??
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)http://www.nestleusa.com/media/news-and-features/nestl%C3%A9-women-in-leadership-meet-hillary-clinton
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)Nestlé Women in Leadership Meet Hillary Clinton
Mar 6, 2014
On March 4, Nestlé USA hosted the final event of the three-part World Leaders Speaker Series for Nestlé Women in Leadership featuring former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This event was also a fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Club of Long Beach, Calif. In support of our Healthy Kids effort, we have selected the Boys & Girls Club of America as a strategic partner for Nestlé USA to continue our outreach into communities across the country and educate young people about the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
Paul Grimwood, Nestlé USA Chairman & CEO, attended the event with more than 25 female leaders from Nestlé companies in the U.S. Paul also met privately with Mrs. Clinton to learn more about the work that the Clinton Foundation is doing in the area of global health, protecting the environment, and promoting health and wellness among young people.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)for the first world young while the multinational corporate exploitation of children and humanity for profit pervades the third world is an abomination.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are being violated. After all, corporations have religious rights and there is nothing more time-honored than religious justifications for slavery. They can enter a pack of holy books into evidence. What is sanctioned cannot be criminal.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Muslims, Hindus, etc., for sure. If only. We'd enjoy watching the GOP candidates' attempts to walk on the religious extremist mud without sinking in.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)about religion would be appropriate in other groups. Have a good day.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Recommend you get over it. We're not going away. Nor are we going to accept corporations cynically presenting any and every legal argument that works for them, including if they decided it might work for them claiming to be a citizen with religious rights. Nestle's hash has not been settled by any means. This is just another inning to a giant multinational like Nestle.
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)or you just not might make it if we have anything to do with it."
Wilms
(26,795 posts)appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... but instead, they're vying with Monsanto, Bayer, DuPont, Cargill, et al. to be the most malevolent and unspeakably evil corporation fouling the Earth, both literally and figuratively.
Former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, has stated publicly that no one has a right to water, even as Nestle steals the contents of entire aquifers out from under poor populations and then tries to sell it back to them. When confronted with this, Brabeck-Letmathe's snide response was, "... dying of thirst is very unpleasant."
Were he to suffer such a fate, few, if any, would mourn his passing.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)sadism typify the ultimate in greed and corruption that we must battle in these times. That fight is monumental but there's no other course to maintain survival.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Oh, for the good old days.
If idiocy didn't reign, evil would be in trouble.