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Corporate Tort Liability Under The Alien Tort Statute Post-Kiobel, 21 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 281

July 1, 2013

ATS cases.’ The court entered into uncharted and controversial territory’ though, as it attempted to deal with a claim made by a group of Nigerian plaintiffs who alleged that “Dutch, British, and Nigerian corporations engaged in oil exploration and production aided and abetted the Nigerian government in committing violations of the law of nations”‘ so as to promote their exploratory efforts.’ In ultimately determining that corporate liability does not exist under the ATS,’ the Second Circuit majority misconstrued its own precedent and that of other circuits, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the ATS in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, on the principles and goals of international law, scholarly commentary, and the earliest available interpretations of the ATS. The plaintiffs sought review in the Supreme Court of the United States.

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