The Legal Intelligencer...extraterritorial application of federal laws applies to the 1789 Alien Tort Statute (ATS). That presumption, a canon of statutory interpretation, says that when...
Originally Published: National Law Journal
Opening its new term with old business, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to restrict lawsuits in federal courts by foreign victims of human rights violations committed abroad
The New Jersey judiciary has administratively stayed adjudication of appeals from red-light camera tickets across the state until the technology is found to be up to statutory snuff
...plaintiffs asserted only a violation of the law of nations under the ATS. Jurisprudence addressing the ATS is sparse, the court observed. In...
...Judge Harvey Bartle III disagreed, finding that the plain language of the ATS includes "no requirement of state action," and that Bianchi's...
...mdash; norm of customary international law that we may apply pursuant to ATS (Alien Tort Statute)." Judge Dennis Jacobs joined Judge Jose...
...Dr. Owens Wiwa. Filed under the Alien Tort Statute, or ATS, and the Torture Victim Protection Act, the complaints in the two cases...
The opposition of the U.S. State Department and the government of Canada to a lawsuit against a Canadian oil company over human rights abuses in the Sudan was not enough to convince a federal judge t
...England.The Superior Court didn't agree."As ATS has failed to identify any specific cause of action for corporate disregard...
...England. The Superior Court didn't agree. "As ATS has failed to identify any specific cause of action for corporate disregard...
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