Alien Tort Statute
Extraterritoriality and the Alien Tort Statute— Narrow Application Preserves Crucial Boundaries
... Extraterritoriality and the Alien Tort Statute— Narrow Application Preserves Crucial Boundaries SMU Law Review Volume 71 | Issue 2 Article 10 2018 Extraterritoriality and the Alien Tort Statute— Narro[.] ...
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Avoiding the Alien Tort Statute: A Call for Uniformity in State Court Human Rights Litigation
... For decades, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has played a valuable role in human rights litigation in U.S. courts. However, in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has limited the ATS’s effectiveness in ...
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Universal Jurisdiction, the Alien Tort Statute, and Transnational Public-Law Litigation After Kiobel
... 480. See, e.g., Karen Alter, Remarks at Duke Law School (Apr. 15, 2014) (acknowledging this point); International Criminal Court, Understanding the International Criminal Court, ...
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No Longer Little Known But Now a Door Ajar: An Overview of the Evolving and Dangerous Role of the Alien Tort Statute in Human Rights and International Law Jurisprudence
... We think it is correct, then, to assume that the First Congress understood that the district courts would recognize private causes of action for certain torts in violation of the law of nations, though we have found no ...
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Corporate Civil Liability under the Alien Tort Statute: Exploring its Possibility and Jurisdictional Limitations
... Circuit had previously held that individuals could be liable for aiding and abetting under the ATS, 13 it had never directly addressed whether the ATS extended jurisd[r] ...
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Adjudicating Violations of International Law: Defining the Scope of Jurisdiction under the Alien Tort Statute—Trajano v. Marcos
... The Trajano court, following the Filartiga court and Judge Edwards' reasoning, correctly resolved this issue. While conceding that some sub- stantive federal law was con[r] ...
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Corporate Liability For International Torts: Did The Second Circuit Misinterpret The Alien Tort Statute?
... In 1991, Congress reauthorized the ATS, giving the 200-year-old statute a new purpose: upholding international human rights law. The modern Congress intended the ATS to provide a unique and powerful means of ...
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The Conundrum of Corporate Liability under the Alien Tort Statute
... the statute can impose corporate liability, but “[f]or now, and for the foreseeable future, the [ATS] does not provide subject matter jurisdiction over claims against ...
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Blackbeards of the Twenty-First Century: Holding Cybercriminals Liable under the Alien Tort Statute
... This type of attack has been given many names, including cyberterrorism, cyber attack, computer network attack (as opposed to computer network espionage and computer [r] ...
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Filartiga v. Pena-Irala After Ten Years: Major Breakthrough or Legal Oddity?
... Although a number of claims have been brought in reliance on Filartiga, their results and those of non-Alien Tort Statute cases interpreting Filartiga show mainly wh[r] ...
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Consistency of Principle in Corporate Insolvency
... (especially tort) claimants had been swept up in its liability net and the firm was ...many tort debts go unpaid in liquidation, 91 and the data relied on by the supporters of the Exploitation Hypothesis ...
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Invasive alien shredders clear up invasive alien leaf litter
... We compared processing of detritus from riparian plants of a dominant UK riparian native plant (Black Alder, A. glutinosa) to the invasive alien A. pseudoplatanus and R. ponticum by one na- tive (Austropotamobius ...
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Judgment of Tort Liability of Multi Person Bullying in School Bullying
... the tort liability of each ...“respective tort theory” proposed by Professor Yang (2017a) can be used to analyze the tort liability of multiple subject respective ...respective tort is that ...
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Persecution Based on Political Opinion: Interpretation of the Refugee Act of 1980
... was informed of the alien's beliefs. However, it would require that the alien show a higher level of political activity or notoriety if the alien is seeking withholdi[r] ...
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Admiralty - Jurisdiction - For Aviation Tort Claims to be Brought in Admiralty, A Significant Relationship to Traditional Maritime Activity Must be Shown
... locality of the alleged tort. Admiralty jurisdiction with respect to aviation tort claims exists only where there is a significant relationship to traditional maritim[r] ...
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Aliens in the sub Antarctic biosecurity and climate change
... of alien species is related to island size, temperature, human occupancy and ...of alien species arriving at sub-Antarctic islands, as well as an increase in the distribution of existing alien ...of ...
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Interspousal Claims at the Crossroads of Tort Law and Family Law: The Delicate Balance between Family and Individual
... of tort law, whereas according to a different opinion it should be treated as a case in which there is exceptional ground for the relevance of punitive damages (which are not generally acknowledged in Italian ...
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Interference with Prospective Gain: Must There Be a Contract
... prevail. "Both the tort of interfer- ence with contract relations and the tort of interference with prospective contract or busi- ness relations involve basically the [r] ...
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Haveri District and the Indian freedom movement
... In his .Vachanas. he has very eloquently spoken of bravery, faithfulness of the people of Karnataka. He firmly believed that one must sacrifice for the sake of his country. The following triplet forcefully brings out ...
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Alien on a Savage Planet
... making Alien on a Savage Planet is to present a character that doesn’t have a teenage problem, but an identity problem, although teens may be more associated with this issue because it indicates ...
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