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9 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by Bexis
Royal Dutch Petroleum, 10-1491, we figured we owe our readers an update about a significant status change.As we mentioned before, the Court accepted the appeal in Kiobel to answer a rather general question that nonetheless could affect drug/device companies caught up in Alien Tort litigation – whether the Act could be applied to corporations, as opposed to individuals.Well, that’s been changed. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 7:50 am
Royal Dutch Petroleum, reviewing whether the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”), which allows lawsuits in U.S. courts for violations of international law, also creates a legal basis for suits against corporations.The decision will have a major effect on the future of U.S. litigation against corporations for extraterritorial human rights impacts and also on our notions of corporate liability for human rights abuses more generally. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 12:13 am by Chukwuma Okoli
This note briefly analyses the recent decision of the Nigerian Supreme Court in BCE Consulting Engineers v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation[1]on the issue of a foreign company that is not registered in Nigeria having the capacity to sue in Nigeria. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 1:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Notable Corporate Tax Rate Changes in 2022 Sixteen countries changed their statutory corporate income tax rates in 2022. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm by Kevin Kaufman
In practice, this tax is mostly levied on foreign banks and petroleum companies. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 1:50 am by Kevin Kaufman
Fifteen jurisdictions do not impose corporate tax. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 4:46 pm by Sophia Cope
Royal Dutch Petroleum (2013) had rejected the idea that a multinational corporation based in the U.S. could be held liable solely for its actions abroad. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 3:01 pm
The syllabus is constructed with these general ideas in mind. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 6:47 pm by Duncan Hollis
Royal Dutch Petroleum, to consider the question of corporate liability under the statute. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 10:41 am by Ryan Scoville
Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., the case in which the Supreme Court will likely decide whether the Alien Tort Statute confers federal jurisdiction over claims alleging corporate violations of customary international law. [read post]
by Melbourne Journal of International Law We are grateful to Justine Nolan for her thoughtful comments on the article, and in particular for highlighting two recent circuit court cases – Flomo v Firestone Natural Rubber Co in the Seventh Circuit and Doe VIII v Exxon Mobil Corporation in the DC Circuit – which affirm that corporations can be liable under the Alien Tort Statute (‘ATS’), contrary to the position of the Second Circuit majority in Kiobel v Royal… [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 2:53 pm by Jeffrey Fessler
In 2019, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (“Occidental”), a Delaware corporation with large petroleum and chemicals operations, entered into a merger agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, wherein Occidental would eventually acquire Anadarko in a transaction valued at $55 billion. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 6:36 am
Getty Petroleum Marketing, Inc., certain New Jersey and Pennsylvania franchisee operators are betting on the latter and have filed suit in the United States District Court in the District of New Jersey against Getty and Lukoil Americas Corporation (“Lukoil”). [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 5:41 am by Charles Sartain
” (Pearce is Longview’s COO and senior petroleum engineer.) [read post]