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11 Jul 2012, 12:11 pm by Ingrid Wuerth
Alvarez-Machain as saying that federal common law creates the cause of action in ATS cases, but that international law directly controls some aspects of the litigation, including the substantive standard for liability. [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 1:44 pm by John Bellinger
   In 2004, in Sosa v Alvarez Machain, the Court unanimously reversed a Ninth Circuit decision allowing an ATS lawsuit for arbitrary arrest and detention, holding that the ATS should be limited to those violations of the law of nations recognized in 1789 -- assaults against ambassadors, violations of safe conduct, and piracy -- and a "modest number" of other offenses "on a norm of international character accepted by the civilized… [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 2:20 pm by Eugene Kontorovich
Alvarez-Machain: What Piracy Teaches About the Limits of the Alien Tort Statute. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 4:12 am by Beth Van Schaack
Alvarez-Machain, the court concluded that the ATS did not confer jurisdiction over corporations. [read post]
11 May 2011, 1:30 am
Supreme Court (above left) set out in Sosa v. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 8:34 am by Russell Jackson
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004) against broadly interpreting new international causes of action into federal common law. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 1:47 pm by Trey Childress
Alvarez-Machain, hope existed in some quarters that the statute would be more narrowly construed by US lower courts. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 8:12 pm by Chimene Keitner
Alvarez-Machain “arise under” federal law for Article III purposes (slip op. at 19342-51). [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 10:02 am by John Bellinger, Andy Wang
AlvarezMachain, “demonstrate that [other] factors are central to the analysis of an ATS claim. [read post]