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27 Jul 2017, 11:24 am by Richard Herz
Alvarez-Machain, the ATS is “only jurisdictional. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 4:40 pm
Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992) Draft of Justice Wiley Rutledge’s dissent (PDF) in Ahrens v. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 7:00 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Alvarez-Machain, there can only be a cause of action under the ATS for conduct that violates "a norm that is specific, universal, and obligatory. [read post]
19 Apr 2013, 8:30 am by Meir Feder
Alvarez-Machain), the lower courts have interpreted the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) as giving rise to a global remedy for international law violations. [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]
26 Jul 2012, 7:11 am by Eugene Kontorovich
Alvarez-Machain: What Piracy Teaches About the Limits of the Alien Tort Statute. [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]
29 Nov 2011, 10:26 am by Ryan Scoville
The Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) creates federal jurisdiction over “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]
18 Jul 2012, 10:12 am by Michael Ramsey
Alvarez-Machain, which involved the extraterritorial actions of a non-citizen agent of the U.S. government – again, that is well within the purposes of the ATS and entirely distinct from corporations with only tenuous connections to the United States. [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]
11 May 2011, 1:30 am
Alvarez-Machain (2004) -- universality and clarity – is itself generated by the place of the Alien Tort Statute in U.S. history.Moreover, many issues that arise in Alien Tort litigation are not clearly addressed by customary international law. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 1:17 pm by Kenneth Anderson
That reach has included (up until Kiobel II) Chinese corporations and Russian oligarchs, irrespective of any contacts with the United States. [read post]