The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether federal courts can hear claims stemming from atrocities committed overseas, including dealing with Jewish property looted in Holocaust and the exploitation of child slaves in cocoa farming overseas
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether federal courts can hear claims stemming from atrocities committed overseas, including the looting of Jewish property during the Holocaust by German and Hungarian authorities and the exploitation of enslaved children from Mali in cultivating cocoa for multinational food processors.
Federal appeals courts hearing separate lawsuits authorized the victims and their heirs to pursue the claims in the U.S., causing Germany, Hungary and the food processors, backed by the...
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