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30 Aug 2012, 5:45 am
Alvarez-Machain, brought under the U.S. [read post]
12 May 2009, 3:02 am
Alvarez-Machain (2004), the Court's landmark judgment respecting the Alien Tort Statute. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 4:51 am
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), the Second Circuit stated that it must look to “customary international law to determine both whether certain conduct leads to ATS liability and whether the scope of liability under the ATS extends to the defendant being sued. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 4:51 am
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), the Second Circuit stated that it must look to “customary international law to determine both whether certain conduct leads to ATS liability and whether the scope of liability under the ATS extends to the defendant being sued. [read post]
12 May 2014, 7:47 am
Alvarez-Machain. [read post]
7 May 2009, 11:35 pm
Alvarez-Machain, a case handed down on the last day of the Court's October 2003 term.Sosa was the Court's first full engagement with the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), which formed but one sentence in the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789: "The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 4:26 am
Alvarez-Machain: (1) In ascertaining custom, federal courts have cited U.S. government sources far more frequently than those of all foreign states combined. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 4:30 am
Alvarez-Machain, the Supreme Court repudiated the notion that the ATS was itself a cause of action. [read post]
11 Nov 2011, 3:00 am
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692, 725 (2004). [read post]
15 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
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]
23 Mar 2021, 9:00 pm
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]
28 Feb 2012, 3:10 am
Alvarez-Machain. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 12:34 pm
Alvarez-Machain (prior posts here). [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 4:46 pm
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]
22 Oct 2012, 9:01 pm
Alvarez-Machain. [read post]
30 Apr 2018, 2:29 pm
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 11:10 am
Alvarez Machain, federal courts are only authorized to recognize limited causes of action under the Alien Tort Statute, for violations of clearly defined, widely accepted human rights norms. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 8:48 am
Alvarez-Machain (described below), which counsels against creating new corporate liability. [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 9:01 pm
Alvarez-Machain. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 9:56 am
Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), as having clarified that the ATS is a jurisdictional statute only, “creating no new causes of action”. [read post]
