Nestle & Cargill vs Doe - The Slaves lose, but the Corps don't win either

[GastonGlock]

So here's an interesting one for today:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ssive-win.html

a handful of now adult former cocoa slaves from Mali sued Nestle and Cargill for knowing and facilitating child slavery in Ivory Coast Cocoa Farms under the US's Alien Tort Statute, and the case made it to the Supreme Court...


The court ruled 9-0 against the former slaves, which is fucking travesty of justice in my mind, but, BUT, B-U-T did NOT rule in Nestle & Cargill's favor in narrowing ATS's scope so that it doesn't apply to domestic corporations.

Did the slaves get their justice? No.

But, just as importantly, this case didn't create precedent as to give US corporations carte blanche from behaving badly abroad.

Could have been better, but sweet jesus it could have been worse. The court's been doing some real super hero work lately.

[HedonistForever]

Yeah, the so called far right, radical court isn't looking so radical after all. Probably because they are reading the laws as written and not applying what they think the law "should be".

[GastonGlock]

They're not radical enough for the left for the same reason.

Extreme ends of both sides want the court to be political when it's real job is making sure the other two branches of government aren't writing shitty laws, as well as making sure the courts below them aren't up to shenanigans as well.

[rexdutchman]

sad but true not radical enough