Much of the chocolate trick-or-treaters eat this weekend will have come from cocoa farms in West Africa that use child labor. Human rights lawyers are using an obscure 1789 law to try to hold chocolate companies accountable. As The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, the US Supreme Court will soon decide if it will allow that approach.
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