Supreme Court Weighs Corporate Liability For Child Laborers On Cocoa Farms By Claire Kelloway, Food and Power. December 11, 2020 Supreme Court Weighs Corporate Liability For Child Laborers On Cocoa Farms2020-12-112020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/cocoa-e1607651188640.jpg200px200px Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the world’s largest cocoa corporations are liable for child slavery in their supply chains. For 15 years, six citizens of Mali who were trafficked as children to work on cocoa farms have sought legal damages from Cargill and Nestle USA under a 240-year-old anti-piracy law. The plaintiffs’ attorney told the court that the corporations “maintain a system of child slavery and […]
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Prison Staff Force Prisoners to Accept Liability For Their Own Deaths By No Justice Under Capitalism, Popular Resistance. December 11, 2020 Prison Staff Force Prisoners to Accept Liability For Their Own Deaths2020-12-112020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/sq-e1607647022589.jpg200px200px Above photo: Inmates on the yard at San Quentin State Prison in 2012. Monica Lam/KQED/CIR. San Quentin – Prisoners at San Quentin State Prison are reporting that, over the past week, San Quentin medical staff have been pressuring prisoners to sign waiver forms accepting legal responsibility for their own deaths from COVID-19. That, despite more than 10 months of continuous neglect and Eighth Amendment violations by the California Department […]
The heads of major Big Tech firms have agreed to testify to a Senate panel later this month, where they’ll address legal liability for online platforms, privacy and “media domination” just days before the US election. The CEOs of Google, Twitter and Facebook are set to testify to the Senate’s Commerce Committee on October 28. The tech bigwigs will speak to lawmakers virtually during the hearing, which is scheduled only 6 days before Americans head to the polls to elect the next president. While the Commerce Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to authorize subpoenas to force the executives to attend the […]
US President Donald Trump said the FBI targeted him for a “coup” after newly released documents showed that federal agents bought liability insurance over fears their handling of the Trump-Russia probe could lead to legal trouble. The new documents were disclosed in a federal court filing on Thursday by Sidney Powell, defense attorney for former Trump adviser Michael Flynn. Seizing on the new release, the president ran a victory lap at a campaign rally in Florida, telling the crowd the FBI had been “caught” attempting a “coup.” “Today a trove of text messages was released from FBI agents involved in the […]
Historic Climate Liability Case In Colorado Against Exxon And Suncor By Earth Rights International. July 9, 2020 Historic Climate Liability Case In Colorado Against Exxon And Suncor2020-07-092020-07-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/olo.jpg200px200px Washington, D.C.–Today, the United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit ruled that a case launched by Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder will proceed in state, rather than federal court. Marco Simons, General Counsel of EarthRights International, which is representing the municipalities in the case, issued the following statement in response: “We applaud today’s decision as an important step forward in our lawsuit against Suncor and Exxon. Federal courts have […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on with Sean Hannity on Monday night. During their segment Secretary of State Pompeo weighed in on John Bolton’s book release. Secretary of State Pompeo: It’s both sad and dangerous. I haven’t read the book in its entirety but the excerpts I’ve seen, lots of falsehoods, lots of lies. Indeed the cover itself, “The Room Where It Happened,” isn’t completely true. The president and others myself included had to cut him out of meetings because he was leaking or he would twist things or he would lie. It was a really difficult situation for the […]
Credit: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAMS Hospitals at center of fight over liability protections in coronavirus relief bill By SUSANNAH LUTHI and RACHEL ROUBEIN/ Politico Hospitals are warning they will be slow to restart elective procedures like knee surgeries and colonoscopies without assurances from Congress they won’t get sued by patients and their own workers if they are infected by the coronavirus during those visits. Powerful industry lobbies like the American Hospital Association pressing for relief in the next rescue package have gained a sympathetic ear from Republican leaders in Congress. They’ll be joining with a raft of other industries seeking legal […]