Consolidated Case: 19-416 NESTLE USA, INC. V. DOE I and 19-453 CARGILL, INC. V. DOE I (2020-December-01)
b"9-453 CARGILL, INC V. DOE I \\n\\nQUESTION PRESENTED: \\n\\nPetitioner Cargill, Incorporated, purchases cocoa beans grown in Cote d'Ivoire. Respondents are Malian citizens who allege that, when Respondents were under the age of fourteen, Ivorian cocoa farmers subjected them to forced labor and other abuses in violation of international law. Respondents filed this putative class action under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. \\xa7 1350, claiming that Cargill aided and abetted the farmers' violations of international law by purchasing cocoa from and providing financial assistance to Ivorian cocoa farmers. \\n\\n\\n 19-416 NESTLE USA V. DOE I \\n\\n QUESTION PRESENTED: \\n\\n1. Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. \\xa7 1350, may overcome the extraterritoriality bar where the claim is based on allegations of general corporate activity in the United States and where plaintiffs cannot trace the alleged harms, which occurred abroad at the hands of unidentified foreign actors, to that activity. \\n\\n2. Whether the Judiciary has the authority under the Alien Tort Statute to impose liability on domestic corporations. \\n\\nSUPPORT what we are doing here by contributing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supremecourt"