Federal Judge Denies Bumble Bee Motion to Dismiss Forced Labor Case
A California federal judge has denied Bumble Bee Foods' motion to reconsider her earlier ruling allowing an Indonesian fishermen's human trafficking lawsuit to proceed.
Chief Judge Cynthia Bashant's June 11 order acknowledged that her previous ruling incorrectly stated that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had definitively held that trafficking claims apply to overseas conduct, when the appeals court had only "assumed without deciding" this point.
Despite the correction, Bashant maintained that the four Indonesian plaintiffs can pursue claims under the...
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