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Friday, July 28, 2017
Symposium: A federal-common-law approach to corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute
Enacted as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Alien Tort Statute provides: “The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.” Despite its Founding-era provenance, the ATS lay largely dormant until 1980, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit held in
Filartiga v. Pena-Irala
that the statute authorized a Paraguayan national to bring a civil damages suit against a former Paraguayan police officer based on allegations of torture
.
The Supreme Court has construed the statute only twice since then – first in 2003 in
Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain
, and again in 2013 in
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
(“
Kiobel II
”). The court will get its third opportunity this term, when it considers
Jesner v. Arab Bank
.
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