Showing posts with label Alien Tort Statute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alien Tort Statute. Show all posts
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Commentary on the Alien Tort Statute

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 A few days ago I reported that the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case about the Alien Tort Statute.  Dorf on Law has now publi...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Alien Tort Statute

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Today the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case called Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe which raises the issue of whether the Alien Tort...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Supreme Court rules that Alien Tort Statute can't be used against defendants for conduct that happens overseas

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Long time readers of this blog know I have followed the cases on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) for some time.  For my posts on this topic, go...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

Ninth Circuit upholds right to sue under the Alien Tort Statute; Washington Legal Foundation asks Supreme Court to overturn

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Long time readers of this blog know I have followed the cases on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) for some time.  For my posts on this topic, go...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Supreme Court Holds Foreign Corporations Cannot Be Held Liable Under Alien Tort Statute

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Long time readers of this blog know I have followed the cases on the Alien Tort Statute for some time.  For my posts on this topic, go here ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Two new short articles on the Alien Tort Statute (and the case pending before the US Supreme Court)

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As I mentioned a few days ago, the Supreme Court will be addressing the issue it was supposed to decide but didn't in  Kiobel v. Royal ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Summary of the latest case on the Alien Tort Statute before the Supreme Court

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Over at SCotUS blog, Amy Howe has published a good summary of the latest case on the Alien Tort Statute before the Supreme Court.  You can r...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case on the Alien Tort Statute to decide whether Corporations can be liable

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It has been more than two years since I have posted anything related to the Alien Tort Statute because, well, with the 2013 US Supreme Cour...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reopens Alien Tort Statute case

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It has been more than a year since I have posted anything related to the Alien Tort Statute because, well, with the US Supreme Court decisio...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

New comment on Kiobel: The United States Can’t Be the World’s Courthouse by Eric Posner

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Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, has written an essay on the Supreme Court's decision in Kiobel v Roya...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Supreme Court decides Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, holding Alien Tort Statute can't be applied extraterritorially

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Long time readers of this blog probably remember that I have been following the decisions in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum closely for a...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Harvard International Human Rights Clinic argues in favor of recognizing causes of action against corporations under Alien Tort Statute

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It has been a while since I last posted something on the case pending before the Supreme Court on whether corporations can be sued under the...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Oral argument in Kiobel is now available

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The audio of the oral argument in Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum is now available.  For the original argument from last term go here ; for ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

More links on Kiobel and the Alien Tort Statute

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As expected, yestereday's oral argument in Kiobel v Royal Petroleum continues to generate a lot of attention.  Yesterday, I posted these...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Supreme Court opens new term with re-hearing on case that could determine the future of the Alien Tort Statute

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As you probably remember, last year the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum in which the Court was aske...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Update on the symposium on the Alien Tort Statute

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Now that all the articles in the ongoing symposium on the Alien Torts Statute are in, some of the authors are posting responses to some of t...
Friday, July 20, 2012

The symposium on the Alien Torts Statute continues

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Now that all the articles in the ongoing symposium on the Alien Torts Statute are in, some of the authors are posting responses to some of t...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Articles on whether corporations can be sued under the Alien Tort Statute and related issues

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Last week I posted ( here ) an announcement of an upcoming on line symposium on Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum , the case currently pending...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

New twist on Kiobel: Obama administration sides with the defendants on the issue of extraterritoriality

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As you probably remember in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum the issue before the Supreme Court was whether corporations (or other entities)...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

More articles in the symposium on whether corporations can be sued under the Alien Tort Statute

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Last week I posted ( here ) an announcement of an upcoming on line symposium on Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum , the case currently pending...