The Justices take judges out of the Alien Tort Statute business in Cisco Systems v. Doe.
In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, University of Chicago Law School professor Curtis Bradley explains why ...
A divided US Supreme Court put new limits on lawsuits against companies over atrocities abroad, rejecting a suit accusing ...
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Cisco Systems of aiding China's persecution of Falun Gong members ...
In a 34-page ruling that one defense lawyer describes as "a sweeping review of the Alien Tort Statute," a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Miami federal district ...
A District Court judge for the Southern District of New York last week denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss in the seminal Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) case, In Re South African ...
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court further limited the reach of a federal law used to hold ...
The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are ...
The court’s decision could have broader implications for whether companies can be held liable for aiding in international ...