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The Alien Tort Statute (codified in 1948 as 28 U.S.C. § 1350; ATS), also called the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), is a section in the United States Code that gives federal courts jurisdiction over lawsuits filed by foreign nationals for torts committed in violation of international law.
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.
Held that respondents improperly sought extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute, as the petitioner's domestic conduct – investing in and doing business with plantations that use child slave labor – constituted general corporate activity and conduct that directly caused injury outside the United States.
Canterbury v. Spence, 464 F.2d. 772 (D.C. Cir. 1972): In medical malpractices cases, informed consent is required of the patient and no expert is required for the case to be heard by a jury. Acree v. Republic of Iraq, 370 F.3d 41 (D.C. Cir. 2004): Established the FSIA did not create new causes of action against foreign states.
Pages in category "Alien Tort Statute case law" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
In 1996, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals again heard a case related to the Alien Tort Statute: Kadic v. Karadzic. [13] The court's decision expanded liability under the Alien Tort Statute beyond state actors to include private actors, which opened the pathway for suits against non-state entities like corporations. [14]
The attorney, who has raised similar allegations in other lawsuits against MMIC, believes the insurer was trying, and succeeded, to pressure legislators into passing the tort reforms it wanted ...
[9] The plaintiffs raised several federal claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act, the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). They also alleged California state law claims of wrongful death , assault , battery , intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence per se ...