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21 Mar 2012, 12:11 am
The Heads of Agreement signed with Rio Tinto in December 2010 provided that if construction of a 50-megawatt, or greater, power plant was started before January 1, 2015, the construction would be funded by loans from Rio Tinto, with 40% of the outstanding balance to be repaid in 2015 and the remainder in 2016. [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 9:53 pm
For a couple of reasons, the presumption against extraterritoriality doesn’t apply neatly to ATS claims, as the Ninth and DC Circuits said in their 2011 decisions in Sarei v Rio Tinto and Doe VIII v Exxon Mobil. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 7:22 am
Finally, Rio Tinto PLC v. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 8:23 pm
Rio Tinto, a Ninth Circuit case in which questions of extraterritoriality have been a central issue. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 4:03 pm
At the same time, the Court took no action on the cert petition in the Rio Tinto case (which had directly raised the issues of extraterritoriality and aiding-and-abetting). [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 12:34 pm
Apparently, in reviewing the cert petition in Rio Tinto v. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 11:01 am
.” That other case was Rio Tinto PLC, et al., v. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 7:05 am
Rinehart, 58, the daughter of the man who discovered the mines that made Australia the world’s biggest iron ore exporter, inherited perpetual royalty rights to some of Rio Tinto Ltd. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 8:14 am
by Julian Ku Anton Metlitsky, an attorney that is defending Rio Tinto from a similar ATS lawsuit as Kiobel’s, drops me this useful reminder about another hurdle facing the Kiobel plaintiffs. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 6:35 am
Rio Tinto case decided in October. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 8:10 pm
Rio Tinto case decided in October. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 8:01 am
Rio Tinto, PNC, an en banc decision in which a petition for certiorari is pending (listed as a “petition to watch” on this blog). [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 12:00 pm
Google Rio Tinto PLC v. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 5:17 am
Rio Tinto, PLC, 550 F.3d 822, 831 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc). [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 11:55 am
Rio Tinto in the Ninth Circuit, also raise the issue. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 2:15 pm
Rio Tinto, discussed here. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 4:00 am
With the grant of certiorari (as expected) in Kiobel on 17 October 2011, the Supreme Court now has an opportunity to address the circuit split on the issue of corporate liability under the ATS – a circuit split that continues to widen, with the recent decision of the Ninth Circuit in Sarei v Rio Tinto on 25 October 2011 coming down on the side of corporate liability for human rights violations (as it had previously done in Unocal). [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 2:00 pm
Of particular timeliness given recent developments, Murray, Kinley and Pitts analyse the legal and political ramifications of the Kiobel decision, and in their discussion update their article in light of the decision in Sarei v Rio Tinto and the recent grant of certiorari in the US Supreme Court. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 6:51 am
Royal Dutch Petroleum (in which it will consider whether corporations can be sued under the ATS), as well as through a possible cert. grant in Rio Tinto PLC v. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 3:35 pm
Plaintiffs in Rio Tinto were a group of current and former residents of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (“PNG”), where defendants Rio Tinto, PLC and Rio Tinto Ltd. [read post]
