“The statute on its own does not empower aliens to sue,” Chief Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the landmark decision.

Big Chocolate won a long-awaited victory on Thursday in its legal battle over child labor when the U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled, 8 to 1, that Nestlé USA and Cargill could not be held responsible for young children forced to pick cocoa beans up to 14 hours a day for little or no pay, thousands of miles from corporate headquarters.