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5 Mar 2010, 11:12 am
Verdugo-Urquidez (1989), in which the Court held that 4th Amendment was not violated by the overseas warrantless search of property belonging to Mexican nationals with no ties to the United States; United States v. [read post]
Alvarez-Machain, thus supporting the “revisionist view” in the debate over the domestic status of customary international law. [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]
12 May 2009, 3:02 am
Alvarez-Machain (2004), the Court's landmark judgment respecting the Alien Tort Statute. [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]
7 May 2009, 2:05 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]
5 Feb 2009, 3:04 am
Alvarez-Machain and finally set forth a methodology for considering actionable claims under the ATS, a few cases involving terrorism allegations have begun to work their way through the federal court system. [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 4:46 pm
Alvarez-Machain and finally set forth a methodology for considering actionable claims under the ATS, a few cases involving terrorism allegations have begun to work their way through the federal court system. [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 2008, 10:57 pm
"Typically, such conduct is not sufficient to secure dismissal of criminal charges in the United States, due to US Supreme Court precedent in the case of United States v Alvarez-Machaim. [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]