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Supreme Court Denies Nestle, Cargill, ADM Appeal in Slave Labor Case

Appeals court had revived lawsuit alleging the companies aided child slave labor abuses in the Ivory Coast

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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider an appeal by three major companies seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging they aided and abetted child slave labor on cocoa plantations in Africa.

The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Nestlé SA’s U.S. subsidiary, Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Cargill Inc., which deny the allegations and say a federal appeals court erred in a 2014 ruling that...

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