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2 Jun 2010, 2:47 pm by Chimene Keitner
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), and others limit the number of cases that will actually go forward. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 3:39 am
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), requires "vigilant gatekeeping. [read post]
15 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm by Samuel Estreicher and Julian Ku
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), kept the door ajar for ATS lawsuits ruling (technically dicta) that Congress intended to authorize federal courts to adopt a “limited class” of cause of actions exhibiting the specificity and universal acceptance of the historical international torts (recognized by Blackstone) of assaults on ambassadors, violations of safe-conduct assurances, and piracy, situations where either no other nation’s… [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 4:23 am
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692, 714-15 (2004), the "law of nations" at that time encompassed three basic spheres:  (1) general norms governing the behavior of nation states with each other, (2) judge-made law regulating the conduct of individuals outside domestic boundaries (such as admiralty law), and (3) rules binding individuals for the benefit of nation states. [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 7:42 pm by Patricia Wald
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692, 750 (2004) as a “fad,” a “fashion,” and “a 20th century invention of internationalist law professors and human rights advocates”). [read post]