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4 Mar 2023, 4:13 am by jonathanturley
Alvarez-Machain where the Court considered whether the Alien Tort Claims Act granted a private right of action to individuals for torts under the law of nations. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  In the first, United States v. [read post]
27 Oct 2022, 5:55 am by Christopher Ewell
Alvarez-Machain, the Supreme Court curtailed the scope of the ATS. [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 interests are affected (piracy)… [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 4:46 pm by Sophia Cope
Alvarez-Machain (2004), new causes of action for violations of modern conceptions of human rights, given that the “law of nations” has evolved over the centuries. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 9:00 pm by Samuel Estreicher and Julian Ku
Instead, Chief Justice Roberts emphasized that “United States Law…does not rule the world,” a phrase he first used in his opinion for the Court in Kiobel v. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 8:17 am by Kelsey Clinton
Alvarez-Machain (2004), in which the Supreme Court acknowledged the ATS could provide a cause of action for violations of international law, but the court imposed a strict test. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 1:00 pm by Zach ZhenHe Tan
Alvarez-Machain held that courts could recognize causes of action in ATS cases based on international norms sufficiently “specific, universal, and obligatory” if other prudential considerations were satisfied. [read post]
7 May 2018, 4:00 am by Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Paul Stephan
Alvarez-Machain’s guarded endorsement of such lawsuits seems exceptional. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 8:48 am by Chinmayi Sharma
Alvarez-Machain (described below), which counsels against creating new corporate liability. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 11:01 am by Chimène Keitner
Alvarez-Machain (2004) that only violations of sufficiently specific, universal, and obligatory international law norms may be actionable under the ATS. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 10:55 am by Samuel Moyn
Alvarez-Machain (2004) left open the door to liability under the statute only in narrow circumstances; the biggest defeat, Kiobel v. [read post]