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Beginning with Filartiga v Pena-Irala[2] and continuing through to Doe v Unocal[3] and more recent cases, there has been a general consensus amongst the various circuits of the US courts that both individual and corporate defendants could be held accountable under the ATS for egregious human rights abuses. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 4:39 am by psmoeller
“Pleading general corporate activity is no better,” he wrote. [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 6:11 pm by Larry Catá Backer
While there has been substantial attention paid to the monitoring and remediation role of transnational corporations under the second pillar responsibility to respect, there has not been enough attention paid to the ability to generate and deepen human rights governance frameworks through these transnational enterprises. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 10:32 am by admin
  There have too also been inevitable comparisons to the recently failed attempt by BHP to acquire Saskatchewan’s Potash Corporation. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 9:35 am
But is there nothing to be learned from forty years of history—indeed, from international lawmaking generally—that could ensure additional remedy to victims of corporate-related human rights harm? [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm by Joseph DeQuarto
Producers of biofuels often clear large forests to plant their crops, use petroleum-based pesticides, and use petroleum-fueled machinery to harvest and then convert their crops into biofuel. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 12:57 am by Kevin LaCroix
In many jurisdictions, corporate officials sued for their actions undertaken in their corporate capacity may be able to defend themselves in reliance on the “business judgment rule. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 6:54 am by Marissa Miller
Royal Dutch Petroleum and Mohamad v. [read post]
6 Apr 2022, 7:13 am by Daniel Jin
[viii] Others note that the desired result of the sanctions on the Russian economy is to generate internal pressure crippling Russia’s capacity to continue its incursion into Ukraine or provoke a regime change. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 7:43 am by Kevin Kaufman
Alaska At its most recent peak in 2012, oil and gas production taxes generated $6.15 billion in Alaska; rents and royalties brought in another $2.04 billion; the petroleum property tax contributed another $111.2 million; and the petroleum corporate income taxes added $568.8 million—with oil and gas taxes yielding $8.86 billion of the state’s $9.49 billion unrestricted general fund ($9.9 billion of $10.6 billion in current dollars), an… [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 5:46 pm by Larry Catá Backer
(Id. 11-12).Professor Gustavo Kaercher Loureiro considered Brazlian petroleum discipline. [read post]
30 Jan 2020, 6:50 am by Kevin Kaufman
At its most recent peak in 2012, oil and gas production taxes generated $6.15 billion; rents and royalties brought in another $2.04 billion; the petroleum property tax contributed another $111.2 million; and the petroleum corporate income taxes added $568.8 million—with oil and gas taxes yielding $8.86 billion of the state’s $9.49 billion unrestricted general fund ($9.9 billion of $10.6 billion in current dollars), an astonishing 93 percent of… [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
Although state laws, like the Model Business Corporation Act and the Delaware General Corporation Act, impose fiduciary duties on directors, shareholders can shape the scope of liability for breach of such duties by contract. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 4:03 pm by John Bellinger
Royal Dutch Petroleum, the Supreme Court has ordered the case to be rebriefed and reargued to address the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute. [read post]