Terry Collingsworth on Supreme Court Case Against Nestle and Cargill

Terry Collingsworth returns to Earth Live for a deep dive into the legal strategy behind his upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing against Nestle and Cargill, a case that could reshape corporate accountability for human rights abuses abroad.

The case, Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe, centers on whether U.S. corporations can be held liable under the Alien Tort Statute for human rights violations committed in their overseas supply chains. Collingsworth walks through the legal arguments, the precedent at stake, and what a ruling either way would mean for future cases seeking to hold multinational companies accountable for forced labor, environmental destruction, and other abuses.

The conversation places the Supreme Court case in the broader context of a decades-long legal strategy to establish corporate liability for supply chain abuses, and what the outcome means for the communities most affected by global commodity production.