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8 Ago 2012

Autor:
Samuel Estreicher, Paul Hastings, counsel of record for amici

[PDF] Esther Kiobel, et al. v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, et al. - Supplemental brief for Professors of International Law, Foreign Relations Law and Federal Jurisdiction as amici curiae in support of Respondents

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The Congressional purpose in enacting the ATS simply does not extend to—and in many circumstances is disserved by—ATS lawsuits based on conduct in foreign countries for which the United States has no responsibility. Here, for example, as in many modern ATS suits, the claims are based on a foreign government’s alleged violation of the rights of its own citizens and residents within its own territory. This category of claim is different in kind from the category of claim the 1789 Congress envisioned in enacting the ATS. Indeed, the Congress that passed the ATS would have viewed opening the federal courts to such claims as a violation of the law of nations rights of the sovereign nation at issue, and even today providing for such a federal judicial role would likely invite the adverse foreign relations consequences the ATS was designed to avert.

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