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February 14, 2021 10:46:34 am Several Malian individuals have sued seven American chocolate companies for abetting and supporting illegal child labor in Côte D’Ivoire. The plaintiffs are former child slaves who were trafficked from Mali to harvest cocoa beans in Côte D’Ivoire. They escaped the plantation and returned to Mali. As laborers, the children are not paid and are constantly subjected to physical abuse by farmers or traffickers. As there are no laws in Mali to aid the plaintiffs in seeking damages or civil remedies against foreign exporters, they brought their claims under US...

Demonstrators in Keene, New Hampshire, gather at a "Save the Children Rally" to protest child sex trafficking and pedophilia around the world, on September 19, 2020. | AFP via Getty Images/Joseph Prezioso More people toil in slavery around the world than most Americans realize as there are currently 40 million people enslaved, enough to fill every NFL stadium 20 times, according to International Justice Mission. “Every day, countless people are trafficked into slavery, as slave owners make a profit off their vulnerability,” IJM National Director of Church Mobilization Katelyn Curran tol...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The first months of the Supreme Court’s 2020 term have had an aura of fatigue: a nation gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, a court adjusting to a new colleague and an unusually light caseload (to be argued by telephone). Despite all this, the Court will address a number of issues important to businesses, including bankruptcy, administrative law, personal jurisdiction and liability under the Alien Tort Statute. Perhaps the most elucidating aspect of this term will be the window it gives into how Justice Amy Coney Barrett will affect...

Summary: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp Readers interested in learning about another Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act case currently before the Supreme Court, Hungary v. Simon, can read Jeremy Gordon's summary of oral argument in that case here. Does the “expropriation exception” of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) afford U.S. courts jurisdiction to resolve claims brought by German citizens against the German government? The extent of the protections the FSIA affords sovereign states was in question on Dec. 7, when the Supreme Court heard ...