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8 Jul 2010, 7:22 am by Frank Pasquale
(Review of Ian Bremmer, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 7:52 pm by John Bellinger
  In Filartiga, the U.S. brief to the Second Circuit argued that “abstention is generally appropriate … when the parties and the conduct alleged in the complaint have as little contact with the United States as they have here. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 6:45 pm by Dan Bushell
2011 will surely go down as the Year of the Class Action in the Supreme Court of the United States. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 10:05 am by Bexis
The same general principle also prohibits states from imposing punitive damages on conduct that took place solely in other states. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 8:29 pm by Valerie Oosterveld
She cited some cases about corporate responsibility in war crimes, such as Khulumani (United States), Sanader (Croatia), Kiobel v. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 10:32 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
  We argued that the United States Supreme Court has held that the citizenship of a limited partnership for purposes of diversity jurisdiction is determined according to the citizenship of its limited and general partners, citing Carden v. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 7:53 am by Sarah Cleveland
  And contrary to some commentators, the 1790 criminal piracy statute at issue in United States v. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 2:20 pm by Eugene Kontorovich
Several of the commentators have repeatedly stated that the ATS extended universal jurisdiction (and corporate liability) to piracy. [read post]
7 May 2018, 4:00 am by Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Paul Stephan
Yet surely the United States should take a stand against corporate involvement in human rights violations by sanctioning firms that profit through abuse. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 10:18 am by Rodger Citron
In Kiobel, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissing a complaint filed under the ATS. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:12 am by Michael Ramsey
Alvarez-Machain, which involved the extraterritorial actions of a non-citizen agent of the U.S. government – again, that is well within the purposes of the ATS and entirely distinct from corporations with only tenuous connections to the United States. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 4:30 am by Robert Loeb, Sarah Grant
 The majority opinion, after 14 pages of opining how the ATS does not apply to human rights violations occurring outside the United States, added: “[o]n these facts, all the relevant conduct took place outside the United States. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 6:49 pm by Record on Appeal
Royal Dutch Petroleum – an Alien Tort Statute case involving a violation of the law of nations and whether a corporation can be a defendant in an Alien Tort Statute action;  United States v. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 7:45 am by Kali Borkoski
Petition for certiorari Brief in opposition Petitioner’s reply United States v. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 2:15 pm by Trey Childress
As previously reported here,  the United States Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in the case of Kiobel v. [read post]