Sex trafficking precedent invoked in child labour class action suit

摘要

On 14 September, Terry Collingsworth hoped to impressthe judges in a memo sent to the court of the District ofColumbia. The American lawyer is representing thirteenCongolese clients who filed a class action suit againstfive tech giants - Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla andDell Technologies - in 2019 over the use of child labour incobalt mines in the DRC (AI, 18/01/21). Collingsworthindicated through a notice of supplemental authority thattwo recent rulings in US courts support his clients' caseand help prove that the five tech giants are guilty. Heargues that though they do not run the cobalt mines inthe DRC that are said to have used child labour, they buytheir output to make and sell their products.