John Roe I v. Bridgestone Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment as actionable norm under customary international law, but holding that “exploitative labor practices” do not violate those norms
• recognizing a “general international norm against cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”
• applying the approach of “focusing on the particular conduct in question to decide whether the customary international norm against cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment is sufficiently specific, universal and obligatory as applied to that conduct.”
• applying the approach of “focusing on the particular conduct in question to decide whether the customary international norm against cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment is sufficiently specific, universal and obligatory as applied to that conduct.”
• collecting cases finding no implied right of action under the Thirteenth Amendment
• disregarding as conclusory allegations that plaintiffs “were placed in fear for their lives, were deprived of their freedom, and were forced to suffer severe physical and/or mental abuse designed to coerce them into working on the Firestone Plantation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).