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19 Apr 2013, 6:54 am
On Monday, the Court also heard argument in United States v. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 10:05 am
The same general principle also prohibits states from imposing punitive damages on conduct that took place solely in other states. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 10:20 am
However, Justice Roberts held that this does not generally apply to conduct that took place outside the United States:even where the claims touch and concern the territory of the United States, they must do so with sufficient force to displace the presumption against extraterritorial application.In the case before the Court, plaintiffs alleged that various multi-national corporations aided the Nigerian government in its human rights abuses in… [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 9:01 pm
Solicitor General Don Verrilli, Jr. argued on behalf of the United States and capably defended the government’s nuanced approach to interpreting the ATS. [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 9:01 pm
The most interesting supplemental brief was filed by the United States. [read post]
14 Oct 2012, 6:04 pm
Katherine McCoy, of Liskow & Lewis, reports that DOJ, for the EPA, has sought a rehearing en banc, not a panel rehearing with a suggestion of rehearing en banc, of the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidating the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule in EME Homer City Generating v. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 6:58 pm
Occidental, and Sarei v. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 6:49 pm
Royal Dutch Petroleum – an Alien Tort Statute case involving a violation of the law of nations and whether a corporation can be a defendant in an Alien Tort Statute action; United States v. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 7:50 am
That's what Aussies call the natural gas released by fracking, and Aussies are beginning to debate the practice as hotly as we are in the United States. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 7:52 pm
In Filartiga, the U.S. brief to the Second Circuit argued that “abstention is generally appropriate … when the parties and the conduct alleged in the complaint have as little contact with the United States as they have here. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 3:00 am
Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., in which the U.S. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 9:33 am
A state law that capped damages at $5 million for the entire incident, upped to $6 million by the General Assembly. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 9:33 am
A state law that capped damages at $5 million for the entire incident, upped to $6 million by the General Assembly. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 2:20 pm
Several of the commentators have repeatedly stated that the ATS extended universal jurisdiction (and corporate liability) to piracy. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 7:53 am
And contrary to some commentators, the 1790 criminal piracy statute at issue in United States v. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 5:20 am
Royal Dutch Petroleum. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 10:22 pm
Circuit denied challenges to EPA’s Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standards [NAAQS] for Nitrogen Dioxide, in American Petroleum Institute v. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 9:49 am
As the first brief of the United States in Kiobel emphasized, “international law . . . establishes the substantive standards of conduct and generally leaves the means of enforcing those substantive standards to each state. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:12 am
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]
17 Jul 2012, 8:37 am
Royal Dutch Petroleum comes from Oona A. [read post]
