THE REAL PRICE OF CHOCOLATE: TOMASELLA V. NESTLÉ USA, INC. AND THE UNRESTRAINED EXISTENCE OF TAINTED SUPPLY CHAINS

Volume 94, No. 3, Spring 2022

By Jacqueline Winton [PDF]

For the average American consumer, a chocolate bar is simply a sweet treat. This sweet treat is incredibly popular; the United States confectionery industry generates over $37 billion in sales each year. However, the sad truth is that the majority of America’s popular candy, and many other frequently consumed food products, are created in supply chains that use cruel and illegal forms of child and slave labor. Drissa, a former child cocoa laborer who has never tasted chocolate, stated: “When people eat chocolate they are eating my flesh.” Few would imagine that their favorite candy exists because young children in West Africa are illegally trafficked from their home countries and forced to perform hazardous labor.

Tags: case note, spotlight, student, supply chains, Vol. 94

Author: Jasnoor Hundal In early August 2023, the Supreme Court stayed the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision, In re Purdue Pharma L.P., and granted certiorari to hear oral argument in December of 2023. The parties were asked to brief and argue “[w]hether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a […]

Randy Kominsky is a member of Temple Law’s Class of 1979. Mr. Kominsky was a staff editor for Volume 51 and an associate research editor for Volume 52 of Temple Law Review. His case note, Housing Discrimination – The Appropriate Evidentiary Standard for Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, was published in 1978.[1] After graduating, he moved […]

Disrupting Hierarchies In Legal Education: Increasing Access By Supporting First Gen Success Katharine Traylor Schaffzin, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law The first-generation college students of Generation Z will challenge all of higher education, including legal education, to reconsider the delivery of education. Fortunately, undergraduate institutions have been […]