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1. Corporations Watch Case On Human Rights Suits

Author

Liptak, Adam

Subjects
Nestlé USA Inc. -- Cases, Cargill Inc. -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Children -- Employment, Agricultural processing industry -- Cases, Food industry -- Cases, Human rights -- Cases, Child labor practices -- Cases, Company legal issue, Food and beverage production/distribution software, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Six citizens of Mali sued Nestlé USA and Cargill, saying the firms had profited from child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, which has placed [...]

Published
2020

2. South Korean Ruling In Suit on Forced Labor Rekindles Old Tensions

Author

Sang-Hun, Choe and Gladstone, Rick

Subjects
South Korean foreign relations, Japanese foreign relations, Slave labor -- Cases, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's top court on Tuesday stirred decades-old resentments that threaten to inflame relations with Japan, ordering a leading Japanese steel maker to compensate Korean men [...]

Published
2018

6. Germany: church payouts

Author

Homola, Victor

Subjects
Catholic Church in Germany -- Public relations, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Influence, Slave labor -- Cases, Germany -- History
Published
2000

7. Switzerland: Nestle paying Holocaust funds

Author

Olsen, Elizabeth

Subjects
Nestle S.A. -- Donations, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Holocaust, 1933-1945, Food industry -- Donations, Restitution and indemnification claims, 1933- -- Statistics, Slave labor -- Cases, Germany -- History
Published
2000

9. Germany: Bertelsmann joins fund

Author

Cohen, Roger

Subjects
Bertelsmann AG -- Social policy, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Finance, Slave labor -- Cases, Book publishing -- Social policy
Published
2000

10. Germany: Nazi talks continue

Author

Cohen, Roger

Subjects
World War II, 1939-1945, Slave labor -- Cases, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Cases, Berlin, Germany -- Conferences, meetings and seminars
Published
2000

11. In suit, housekeeper says buddhist monk enslaved her in his Queens home

Author

Semple, Kirk

Subjects
Slave labor -- Cases, Housekeepers -- Civil rights, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

A Korean immigrant housekeeper has accused her former employers -- a Korean Buddhist monk and his family -- of keeping her as a prisoner in their homes in Queens for [...]

Published
2011

12. Young and in servitude, the poorest of Haiti's poor

Author

Lacey, Marc

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business management, Poor children -- Civil rights -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Children -- Employment -- Death, Flood relief -- Haiti -- Management -- Cases, Child labor practices -- Cases
Abstract

Thousands of desperate women pushed and shoved to get at the relief food being handed out on the outskirts of this flooded city last week. Off to the side were […]

Published
2008

13. Bail Is Revoked For L.I. Woman In Slavery Case

Subjects
Company legal issue, Slave labor -- Cases, Housekeepers -- Cases
Abstract

A federal judge revoked bail on Thursday for a wealthy Long Island woman convicted earlier this week of imprisoning and torturing two Indonesian housekeepers in what prosecutors called a case […]

Published
2007

14. U.S. looks at whether Saudi princess enslaved maid. (in Florida)

Author

Harden, Blaine

Subjects
Company legal issue, Princesses -- Cases -- Crimes against, Slave labor -- Cases, Saudi Arabians -- Cases -- Crimes against, Housekeepers -- Crimes against -- Cases
Abstract

The Justice Department is investigating whether a Saudi princess, arrested here last month on charges that she pushed her maid down a flight of stairs, held the live-in Indonesian maid […]

Published
2002

16. Payments begin for laborers forced to work for the Nazis

Author

Flanders, Stephanie

Subjects
Company legal issue, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Reparations -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Germany -- Cases
Abstract

Rancor mingled with relief as thousands of Nazi-era slave laborers began receiving payments yesterday from a $4.5 billion German compensation fund, more than half a century after the fact and […]

Published
2001

17. $52 million for lawyers' fees in Nazi-era slave labor suits; class-action suits focused Germans, a U.S. negotiator says

Author

Fritsch, Jane

Subjects
Company legal issue, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Reparations -- Cases, Class actions (Civil procedure) -- Cases, Attorneys -- Fees, Germany -- Cases
Abstract

Lawyers who represent Nazi-era slave laborers split more than $52 million in legal fees yesterday for work on a case that will bring Holocaust victims $5,000 to $7,500 each. Eleven […]

Published
2001

18. Last chapter: Berlin to pay slave workers held by Nazis

Author

Cohen, Roger

Subjects
Company legal issue, Germany. Parliament -- International relations -- Cases, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Forced labor -- Cases, Berlin, Germany -- Cases
Abstract

After more than two years of often bitter negotiations, Parliament approved a motion today that opens the way for payment of $4.5 billion to laborers forced to work by the […]

Published
2001

19. One step closer to reparations for Nazi victims. (slave labor case)

Author

Fritsch, Jane

Subjects
Company legal issue, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Reparations -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases
Abstract

In an action intended to speed up payments to victims of the Nazi regime, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a federal judge exceeded her authority when she requested […]

Published
2001

20. Decision on Nazi reparations is appealed

Subjects
Company legal issue, United States. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Judges -- Practice -- Cases
Abstract

Lawyers for German industry joined with lawyers for Nazi-era slave laborers yesterday to appeal a decision by a federal judge that they say will block payment of reparations to victims […]

Published
2001

21. Federal judge declines to dismiss Holocaust-reparations suit; will a foundation have the money to pay claims?

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company financing, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases -- Finance, Slave labor -- Cases, Reparations -- Cases, Class actions (Civil procedure) -- Cases, Judges -- Practice -- Cases, Germany -- Finance
Abstract

A federal judge in New York, presiding over Holocaust litigation against German banks, yesterday refused to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that stands in the way of a multibillion-dollar settlement of […]

Published
2001

22. An office staple with a dark side

Author

Newman, Andy

Subjects
Company legal issue, Aimco (China) -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Convict labor -- China -- Cases
Abstract

The common black metal spring clip, an office mainstay, has acquired an aura of misery. According to a case decided last week in a Federal District Court in New Jersey, […]

Published
2001

23. Nazi labor case gains

Subjects
Company legal issue, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Cases
Abstract

Judge William G. Bassler of Federal District Court here today dismissed 45 of the 49 suits against German companies that used forced labor under the Nazis, moving toward disbursing $5.1 […]

Published
2000

24. Making peace with a war long ended

Author

Cardwell, Diane

Subjects
Company legal issue, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Holocaust, 1933-1945 -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Holocaust victims -- Cases, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Cases, Restitution -- Cases
Abstract

It was a banner week for grappling with the legacy of a war that ended more than 50 years ago. First, the Finnish prime minister, Paavo Lipponen, issued an official […]

Published
2000

25. Romanian Gypsies wait for slave-labor payment; procedure delays money for victims of the Nazis

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company financing, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases -- Political aspects -- Finance, Holocaust, 1933-1945 -- Finance -- Cases -- Political aspects, Romanians -- Finance -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Cases
Abstract

Constantin Constantin was deported by Nazi-backed authorities and forced into backbreaking slave labor. Almost 60 years after his ordeal, he is still waiting for at least token compensation. Mr. Constantin […]

Published
2000

26. Germans sign agreement to pay forced laborers of Nazi era

Author

Andrews, Edmund L.

Subjects
Company legal issue, Banking industry, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Holocaust, 1933-1945 -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, National socialists -- Cases, Class actions (Civil procedure) -- Cases, Banking industry -- Cases -- Negotiation, mediation and arbitration -- Political activity, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Cases, Commercial banks -- Cases, Germany -- Negotiation, mediation and arbitration
Abstract

It has been 55 years since Karel Horak was forced to work at Czech factories seized by Hitler's forces. Today, as he watched with the patience acquired over a long […]

Published
2000

27. Talks with Germany on fund for victims of Nazi slave labor are snagged by legal issue

Author

Andrews, Edmund L.

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business planning, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases -- Planning, Holocaust, 1933-1945 -- Cases -- Planning, Slave labor -- Cases, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Planning -- Cases, Holocaust survivors -- Cases, Germany -- International relations
Abstract

Five months after German industry and the government agreed to pay Holocaust survivors nearly $5 billion, the deal became ensnarled today in disagreements with the United States over protecting the […]

Published
2000

28. U.S. supports bid to dismiss maid's suit against envoy

Author

Sengupta, Somini

Subjects
Company legal issue, Slave labor -- Cases, Diplomats -- Cases, New York, New York -- Cases
Abstract

As trial began of a Bahraini diplomat accused of keeping his maid in indentured servitude, a lawyer for the United States government yesterday asked a judge to dismiss the case, […]

Published
2000

29. Wartime workers in the Philippines to sue Japanese companies

Subjects
Company legal issue, World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cases, Slave labor -- Cases, Filipinos -- Cases, Corporations -- Cases, Restitution -- Cases, Japan -- Cases
Abstract

Thousands of Filipinos will join a class-action suit against Japanese companies to seek compensation for forced labor during World War II, a Filipino lawyer who is heading the suit said […]

Published
2000

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