The Alien Tort Statute (codified in 1948 as 28 U.S.C. § 1350; ATS), also called the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), is a section in the United States Code...

Court which addressed the issue of corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). Plaintiffs alleged that Arab Bank facilitated terrorist attacks...

tribes. Alien land laws Alien Tort Statute California Alien Land Law of 1913 Gaijin Laowai Persona non grata Unaccompanied Alien Children "Alien". Britannica...

Human Rights. With the potential exception for redress under the Alien Tort Statute corporations are only legally accountable for human rights violations...

was a United States Supreme Court case involving the Alien Tort Statute and the Federal Tort Claims Act. Many ATS claims were filed after the Second...

the case under the Alien Tort Statute, which grants district courts original jurisdiction to hear tort claims brought by an alien that have been "committed...

"The Impact of 'Kiobel' Curtailing the Extraterritorial Scope of the Alien Tort Statute" (PDF). Wall Street Lawyer. 17 (7): 3–10. Conway, George; Ku, Julian...

lawsuit was filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act and the Alien Tort Statute, a federal law that lets American courts try foreign human rights...

the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act. According to the Court's majority opinion, "it would reach...

District of New York in Brooklyn under the Anti-Terrorism Act and Alien Tort Statute in 2004, all of which resulted in decisions in favor of the bank....

entitled to bring suit against Pfizer in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute. Pfizer subsequently settled the case out of court with a $75 million...

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included the Alien Tort Statute, now codified as 28 U.S.C. § 1350, which provides jurisdiction in the district courts over lawsuits by aliens for torts in violation...

2011, a group of Falun Gong practitioners filed a lawsuit under the Alien Tort Statute alleging that Cisco knowingly developed and customized its product...

its Nigerian operation. The cases were brought under the Alien Tort Statute, a 1789 statute giving non-US citizens the right to file suits in US courts...

Argentina in federal court claiming that Argentina's actions violated the Alien Tort Statute 28 U.S.C. § 1350 and general admiralty law. Because the Court found...

cnn.com. Retrieved 2006-07-30. Bergman, Jessica (2011-01-01). "The Alien Tort Statute and Flomo v. Firestone Natural Rubber Company: The Key to Change in...

the Union Oil Company of California under the Alien Tort Claims Act (also known as the Alien Tort Statute), and in October 1996, another fourteen villagers...

issue of whether Álvarez was entitled to remedy, pursuant to the Alien Tort Statute. The Supreme Court held that an illegal detention of a single day...

628 (2021), is a United States Supreme Court decision regarding the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), which provides federal courts jurisdiction over claims brought...

"occurred in the Ivory Coast," and American laws, specifically the Alien Tort Statute, could not be applied extraterritorially. At the conclusion of a year-long...

victims. The case is In Re: Chiquita Brands International, Inc., Alien Tort Statute and Shareholders Derivative Litigation (0:08-md-01916), presided by...

circuit court later found that the corporation could be sued under the Alien Tort Statute of 1789. Kavanaugh wrote for unanimous three-judge district courts...

including a tort or contract case. If the statute of limitations expires before a lawsuit is filed, the defendant may raise the statute of limitations...

enforced by the court of another member state. Act of state doctrine Alien Tort Statute Conflicts of Law Enforcement of foreign judgments Forum non conveniens...

extrajudicial killings in a suit against him in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute. In 2014, the U.S. District Court in Florida ruled the case could...

extraterritoriality has changed over the years, however. For example, the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 allows foreign citizens in the United States to bring cases...

in Richmond, Virginia, found that an 18th-century law known as the Alien Tort Statute, allowed non-US citizens access to U.S. courts for violations of "the...

Peña-Irala (1980): Filártiga established a precedent for the use of the Alien Tort Statute to allow foreign victims of human rights abuses to seek justice in...

the pleading requirements for plaintiffs stating a claim under the Alien Tort Statute. As of 2014[update] it served as lead restructuring counsel to the...