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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...
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    extract latex from rubber trees) on the Liberian plantation, filed an Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) case in U.S. District Court in California against Bridgestone...
    37 KB (4,307 words) - 19:52, 10 January 2025
  • D.C.–based International Labor Rights Fund and is based on the Alien Tort Claims Act. The AirScan employees, Arthur McClintock, Jose Orta, and Charlie...
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    Association of International Scholars. In February 2001, an Alien Tort Claims Act claim was filed in U.S. federal court against IBM for allegedly providing...
    30 KB (3,301 words) - 17:36, 11 December 2024
  • Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc. (category Alien Tort Statute case law)
    both Connecticut law claims were dismissed. In addition to lack of subject matter jurisdiction, under both the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Connecticut...
    28 KB (3,685 words) - 02:32, 22 November 2024
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    court, demanding monetary compensation of $500 million under the Alien Tort Claims Act for the deaths of three workers in Colombia. In 2001 Sinaltrainal...
    7 KB (589 words) - 02:54, 13 May 2024
  • International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit in 2005 under the Alien Tort Claims Act against Nestlé and others on behalf of three Malian children. The...
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  • for Constitutional Rights filed suit against Blackwater under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of an injured Iraqi and the families of three of the 17...
    134 KB (12,661 words) - 20:07, 11 February 2025
  • the Offenses Clause of the Constitution of the United States, the Alien Tort Claims Act, and customary international law. In deciding this, the court famously...
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    In 2004, he was found liable by a US District Court under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) (28 U.S.C. § 1350) for aiding, conspiring, and participating...
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  • headquarters throughout the second world war." In February 2001, an Alien Tort Claims Act claim was filed in U.S. federal court on behalf of concentration camp...
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  • Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (category Alien Tort Statute case law)
    the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act. According to the Court's majority opinion, "it would reach...
    19 KB (2,175 words) - 02:29, 13 September 2023
  • Constitutional Rights filed suit against Blackwater USA under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of an injured Iraqi and the families of three of the seventeen...
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  • countries. The plaintiffs filed their suits by invoking the 1789 Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), which allows for alleged human rights violations committed...
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  • have begun to pursue civil suits. The first were filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), which had been passed soon after the American Revolutionary...
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  • Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019. While with the USW, he worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum...
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  • The Alien Tort Claims Act, a United States law which provides redress for violations of customary international law. Also known as the Alien Tort Statute...
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    Alperin v. Vatican Bank (category Alien Tort Statute case law)
    a precedent at the intersection of the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). Part of the complaint against the...
    22 KB (2,801 words) - 19:05, 16 January 2025
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    sexually transmitted diseases. Time limitation under the United States Alien Tort Claims Act (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-10 Doyle, Kate...
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  • equipment Aid to the civil authority, military aid to the civil power Alien Tort Claims Act, a U.S. statue on jurisdiction All Tripura Chess Association, an...
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