The Supreme Court sided with Cargill and Nestle in a June 17 ruling, throwing out a lawsuit alleging that the two food giants aided and abetted child slavery in West Africa.
The court, in an 8–1 ruling (pdf), stated that a lawsuit from former slaves in Mali who were trafficked to the Ivory Coast should be dismissed because U.S. courts don’t have jurisdiction in the case. The six individuals filed the lawsuit under the 1789 Alien Tort Claims Act, claiming they were used as child slaves to supply cocoa to the two food corporations.
