Alien Tort Statute News

Supreme Court Rejects Human Rights Claim Against Multinational Firm

The U.S. Supreme Court gave multinational companies a stronger shield against lawsuits, throwing out a case against Daimler AG over a company unit’s alleged collaboration in torture and killings in Argentina. The justices unanimously said the parent company didn’t have …

German Firms Not Liable Under U.S. Alien Tort Statute for Aiding Apartheid

A U.S. judge on Thursday said Daimler AG and Rheinmetall AG cannot be held liable for allegedly aiding and abetting South Africa’s former apartheid government in race-based attacks and injustices. The plaintiffs in the case accused the two German companies, …

Supreme Court: U.S. Courts Lack Jurisdiction to Hear Foreign Human Rights Claims

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear lawsuits against foreign corporations accused of aiding in human rights abuses abroad. In one of its biggest human rights cases in years, the justices …

Supreme Court to Hear Employer Liability, Class Certification in New Term

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review close to 40 cases in its new term that begins on Monday, roughly half the number the court is expected to hear this year. Below are some of the more prominent cases …

Supreme Court Weighs If Firms Can Be Sued Over Human Rights Abuses Abroad

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear arguments next term on whether an 18th century U.S. law can be used to sue multinational corporations or others in American courts for alleged human rights abuses committed abroad. The …

Supreme Court Weighs Foreigners’ Claims Against Corporations

Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off in a Supreme Court fight over whether foreign victims of war crimes, killings and other atrocities can haul multinational companies into American courts and try to prove they were complicit in the …