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Article

1 Aug 2012

Author:
Kathleen Sullivan, counsel for respondents - Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

[PDF] Esther Kiobel, et al. v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, et al. - Supplemental Brief for Respondents

Petitioners’ complaint alleges that the Nigerian government, aided and abetted by an Anglo-Dutch company, subjected Nigerian citizens to human-rights violations on Nigerian soil. Few cases could be more remote from the circumstances that prompted the First Congress to enact the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (“ATS”): namely, the prospect that international-law violations committed on U.S. soil might prompt international conflict and even war if left without a remedy in the nascent federal courts. Nothing in the ATS’s text, structure, or history contemplates extending it to a case like this one, and, to the contrary, two well-established canons of con-struction foreclose that extension.

Part of the following timelines

Shell files supplemental brief with US Supreme Court for rehearing of Kiobel v. Shell Alien Tort Claims Act case

Shell lawsuit (re executions in Nigeria, Kiobel v Shell, filed in USA)