LogFAQs > #955165993

Hey, on the subject of Supreme Court rulings, what the fuck is this Nestl child slavery shit? Maybe someone more versed in the court can explain it.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/06/justices-scuttle-lawsuit-against-nestle-cargill-for-allegedly-aiding-child-slavery-abroad/

Like, to an extent I understand there are legal complexities here. International law is messy. Nestl has enough degrees of separation because they are only business partners with slavers, which gives them a degree of plausible deniability. By directly funding slavers as part of normal business operations they are only indirectly funding slavery, even thoughsurely it's Nestl's funding that creates this environment at all. Plus, the burden of proof to show they are aware of the slavery and child labor is probably really high. The argument seems to be the plaintiffs should be suing the slavers themselves. There's opinions on whether companies can even be sued over international law violations I won't even pretend to understand. But uh...does anyone actually believe any of this?

As a layman I can't help but read this as a total failure of the legal system. As in, the 8-1 verdict (Alito the lone dissenter?) only tells me that the law is completely unequipped to deal with the problem. And the issue in question is so heinous that's unacceptable.

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