Mealey's (July 2, 2020, 10:37 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on July 2 granted petitions for a writ of certiorari filed by Nestle USA Inc. and Cargill Inc. seeking to challenge the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that former cocoa farms’ child slaves had Article III of the U.S. Constitution standing to bring claims of aiding and abetting slave labor in violation of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and consolidated the two cases (Nestle USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al., No. 19-416, Cargill, Incorporated v. John Doe I, et al., No. 19-453, U.S. Sup.)....