Split U.S. Supreme Court Rules For U.S. Companies In Consolidated Child Slave Suits

Mealey's (June 17, 2021, 12:59 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — General corporate activity alone is insufficient to support a domestic application of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 17 in two consolidated cases accusing two United States-based companies of aiding and abetting child slave labor on cocoa farms....

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