Overseas Shrimp Plant Workers Land New Shot at Importer Case (1)

Cambodian workers can try again to hold a US frozen shrimp importer liable for attempting to benefit from their forced labor at a seafood processing facility in Thailand, the Ninth Circuit said Friday.

Congress amended a federal trafficking law shortly after an earlier US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel rejected the workers’ claims. That amendment clarified that the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act includes civil attempt liability and applies retroactively, the split en banc court said, allowing the workers ...