A Texas federal jury began deliberating Thursday whether a wealthy married couple enslaved an African child for 16 years in their affluent suburban home and denied her pay and an education before she escaped.
Read moreA North Korean worker who claims he is a victim of modern slavery in a Polish shipyard has filed a criminal complaint against a Dutch shipbuilder that bought products from the Polish firm, an activist group said Thursday.
Read moreIn a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that a major Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.
Read moreNestle and Cargill must face claims they approved the use of child slaves on Ivory Coast plantations and bribed slave masters to get cheap cocoa, a panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA Texas couple was indicted Wednesday, federally charged with enslaving a child from Africa for 16 years, denying her pay and education and putting her to forced labor in their home.
Read moreSeagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was arraigned in Brooklyn federal court on racketeering charges Tuesday in connection with a group that prosecutors say operated like a secretive cult and recruited women as sex slaves.
Read moreThe 9th Circuit held on Friday that Costco could not be held liable for selling products that may have been partially produced by slave labor, saying the plaintiff did not rely on the company’s representations about policing human rights abuses in its supply chain.
Read moreBuilding on prior rulings, the Ninth Circuit issued six opinions Tuesday holding that corporations have no duty to disclose the use of slave labor in their supply chains under California law.
Read moreA federal judge in Brooklyn denied a bail package Tuesday for accused sex trafficker Keith Raniere, partly because it did not identify the trustee of the proposed $10 million bond.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit judge indicated Tuesday she might favor reviving a lawsuit accusing Costco of misleading consumers about slave labor in its supply chain for prawns.
Read moreRevisiting a controversial case that split appeals courts three years ago, a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel indicated Thursday it will keep alive a lawsuit accusing Nestle and Cargill of aiding and abetting child slavery to get cheap cocoa.
Read moreCandy maker Mars Inc. doesn’t have to disclose that the raw ingredient used to make its candy bars might have been a product of child slave labor, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreGovernment prosecutors called for the forfeiture of an upstate New York house where they say the founder of international professional-development group NXIVM repeatedly had sex with at least three of his “slaves.”
Read moreThe founder of professional-development group NXIVM was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Texas federal court, sensationally accused of heading a secretive cult that branded female followers with cauterizing pens and keeping them as sex slaves.
Read moreThe founder of international professional-development group NXIVM was arrested Monday on federal charges of running a cult-like organization in which female members were branded and considered sex slaves.
Read moreA nanny hired by members of Saudi Arabian royalty living in the U.S., claims in court she was forced into slavery, subjected to psychological abuse and isolated from the outside world after her employers snatched her passport and refused to return it to her for nearly a year.
Read moreThe Cherokee Nation cannot deny membership to the descendants of black slaves owned by the tribe and others like it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit reinstated a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times on Tuesday, ruling in favor of a Loyola University economics professor who claims the newspaper inaccurately reported that he thought slavery was “not so bad.”
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