In his Foreign Relations Law column, Samuel Estreicher discusses how a Ninth Circuit panel in 'Doe I v. Cisco Systems' recently gave new life to the Alien Tort Statute, which has become a major focus ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Cisco Systems in which the tech company and President Donald Trump's administration are asking the justices ...
From Judge Tiffany Cartwright (W.D. Wash.) in Friday's Jan v. People Media Project: Plaintiff Almog Meir Jan is an Israeli citizen who was kidnapped on October 7 and held hostage by Hamas operative ...
The Cisco logo appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite on Oct. 3, 2018, in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Friday ...
The next Citizens United, in the view of some of that decision's most vigorous critics, may have nothing to do with campaign finance or the First Amendment. Instead, corporations in a case the ...
Shell’s brief, elegantly written by former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan, goes quite a bit further, though. It implies that federal appeals courts have erred in rulings that permitted the ...
THE SUPREME COURT recently considered whether a 1789 law authorizes foreigners to sue in federal court over human rights abuses committed abroad. An impressive array of human rights groups, law ...
On Friday, attorneys for victims of human rights violations are filing briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, a civil lawsuit that brought under one of the country's oldest ...
(Reuters) - The 33-word Alien Tort Statute, at the center of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, was enacted by the First Congress in 1789. It reads: "The district courts shall have ...
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