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Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain , 542 U.S. 692 (2004), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the Alien Tort Statute and the Federal Tort Claims Act . Many ATS claims were filed after the Second Circuit ruling in Filártiga v.
Sosa [clarification needed], Gárate [clarification needed], five unnamed Mexican nationals, the United States and four DEA agents were listed as defendants. [7] The district court ruled in favor of Álvarez in the amount of $25,000, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed Sosa's liability on appeal.
United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the respondent's forcible abduction from a foreign country, despite the existence of an extradition treaty with said country, does not prohibit him from being tried before a U.S. court for violations of American criminal laws.
The Supreme Court held in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain that the ATS provides a cause of action for violations of international norms that are as "specific, universal, and obligatory" as were the norms prohibiting violations of safe conducts, infringements of the rights of ambassadors, and piracy in the 18th century. [22]
In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain that the Declaration "does not of its own force impose obligations as a matter of international law", and that the political branches of the U.S. federal government can "scrutinize" the nation's obligations to international instruments and their enforceability. [12]
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After a decades-long explosion of Alien Tort Statute litigation post-Filártiga, the Supreme Court began to place limits on the statute's jurisdiction in 2004 with the case of Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain. [15] [12] In Sosa, the Supreme Court held that courts may recognize "a narrow set of common law actions derived from the law of nations," which ...
Pages in category "Alien Tort Statute case law" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain; W. Wiwa v. Royal Dutch ...