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Jesner v. Arab Bank (U.S. Sup. Ct.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2018

Laura Conn
Laura Conn*
Affiliation:
Laura Conn is an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. The views expressed in this Note are the author's own and in no way represent the position of the U.S. government.
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Extract

On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Jesner v. Arab Bank. In only the third case in which the Supreme Court has considered the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) since its enactment in 1789, the Court held that foreign corporations may not be defendants in suits brought under the ATS. In foreclosing foreign corporate liability under the ATS, the Court limited the pool of possible ATS claims that can be brought. However, it left open the question of whether U.S. corporations could be sued under the ATS.

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International Legal Documents
Information
International Legal Materials , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , August 2018 , pp. 628 - 670
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by The American Society of International Law 

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ENDNOTES

1 28 U.S.C. §1350.

2 See Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980).

3 569 U.S. 108 (2013).

4 See, e.g., Doe I v. Nestle USA, Inc., 766 F.3d 1013, 1022 (9th Cir. 2014); Doe VIII v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 654 F.3d 11, 57 (D.C. Cir. 2011), vacated on other grounds, 527 Fed. Appx. 7 (D.C. Cir. 2013); Flomo v. Firestone Nat. Rubber Co., 643 F.3d 1013, 1021 (7th Cir. 2011); Romero v. Drummond Co., 552 F.3d 1303, 1315 (11th Cir. 2008).

5 Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004) [hereinafter Sosa].

6 Jesner, 584 U.S. ____, 12 (2018).

7 Sosa, supra note 5, at 732.

8 Id. at 732 n.20.