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Bridgestone Must Produce Docs In Child Labor Suit

Law360, New York (May 22, 2009) -- A federal judge has ordered Bridgestone Corp. to hand over documents dating as far back as 1995 in a lawsuit brought by Liberian workers who claim the company forced them as children to work harvesting latex at a rubber plantation in the west central town of Harbel.

Magistrate Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on Wednesday overruled Bridgestone's objection to the plaintiffs' motion to compel documents going as far...

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