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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]
23 Jul 2012, 5:20 am by Santiago A. Cueto
These governments argued that: [T]he right of the United States or any other sovereign to create and enforce such a domestic remedy depends on it being able to satisfy the proper jurisdictional limits recognized by international law. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 9:50 am by Anthony Colangelo
District Court for the District of Columbia referenced my most-noted formulation of this principle in a foreign-cubed piracy case, United States v. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 8:15 am by Meir Feder
  Indeed, that issue could not have been presented in Sosa, which involved conduct for which the United States could easily have been deemed responsible. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 7:21 am by Ingrid Wuerth
Meir attempts to avoid these problems by arguing that the Sosa decision itself interpreted the ATS as limited to conduct for which the United States might be held responsible. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 4:14 pm by Tyler Giannini and Susan Farbstein
The young United States did not wish to harbor a pirate or slave trader considered the enemy of all mankind. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 10:50 am by Julian Ku
  It is a law of the United States, which authorizes courts to apply domestic American law to activities with some substantial connection to the United States. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 12:11 pm by Ingrid Wuerth
Although many of the briefs filed in the Kiobel litigation take the “binary approach,” the briefs of the United States did not. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 8:58 am by Meir Feder
The Supreme Court’s sole opinion to date interpreting the Alien Tort Statute, the 2004 decision in Sosa v. [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 12:09 am by Vikram Raghavan
Peña-Irala, and other instances recorded by Justice Breyer in Sosa v. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 9:01 pm by Julian Ku
See Sosa, 542 U.S. at 714-718, 722-724 & n.15. [read post]