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1 Jul 2021, 4:46 pm by Sophia Cope
When a company or an employee leads the company’s operations from within the United States and pockets profits from human rights abuses suffered abroad, the courts in the United States must exercise jurisdiction to hold them accountable. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 8:26 pm
  The circumstances for this week's Kiobel hearing therefore seems quite different than the context for the Supreme Court's earlier review of the ATS in Sosa v. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 7:49 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 With circuits having gone different directions on this issue, this perhaps tees up a SCOTUS review that would revisit its last, delphic pronouncement on the Alien Tort Statute in Sosa v. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 2:20 pm by Eugene Kontorovich
The great object [of the statute]… was to protect the merchant vessels of the United States and their crews from piratical aggressions. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 5:27 pm by Trey Childress
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second... [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 9:18 am by John Bellinger
  In its seminal 2004 opinion in Sosa, the Supreme Court had specifically left open the question of whether the ATS applies to non-state actors, such as corporations. [read post]
7 May 2009, 11:35 pm
This was made clear in his decision in Sosa v. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 7:11 am by Eugene Kontorovich
Before responding to particular participants, I should introduce an important intervening precedent – United States v. [read post]
11 May 2011, 1:30 am
Supreme Court (above left) set out in Sosa v. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 12:43 pm by Donald Childress
The following response in our symposium on Kiobel v. [read post]
Our third criticism is that the majority’s analysis of whether corporations are ‘subjects’ of international law is in error, for the simple reason that such analysis is irrelevant to the question of whether the United States, through the enactment of a statute, could impose domestic civil liability on corporations for conduct that violates international law. [read post]