{"id":51539,"date":"2016-01-28T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51539"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:36:25","slug":"child-slavery-case-against-nestle-can-proceed-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/28\/child-slavery-case-against-nestle-can-proceed-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Child slavery case against Nestle can proceed &#8211; SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has rejected a bid by three of the world\u2019s biggest food producers to throw out a lawsuit holding them accountable in a landmark child slavery case.<\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9, Archer-Daniels-Midland, and Cargill are being sued for using unpaid children to harvest cocoa in Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s Supreme Court decision backs up a 2014 ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that refused to dismiss the lawsuit against them.<\/p>\n<p>The companies stand accused of aiding and abetting human rights violations by purchasing cocoa from Cote d\u2019Ivoire in full knowledge of the country\u2019s child slavery problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has rejected a bid by three of the world\u2019s biggest food producers to throw out a lawsuit holding them accountable in a landmark child slavery case. Nestl\u00e9, Archer-Daniels-Midland, and Cargill are being sued for using unpaid children to harvest cocoa in Cote d\u2019Ivoire. Monday\u2019s Supreme Court decision backs up a 2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}