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2013年4月17日

作者:
Greg Stohr, Bloomberg

Companies Shielded as U.S. Court Cuts Human-Rights Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court insulated multinational corporations from some lawsuits over atrocities abroad, scaling back a favorite legal tool of human rights activists. The justices threw out a suit accusing two foreign-based units of Royal Dutch Shell Plc of facilitating torture and execution in Nigeria. The majority said the 1789 Alien Tort Statute generally doesn’t apply to conduct beyond U.S. borders. In the Shell case, “all of the relevant conduct took place outside the United States,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. The justices were unanimous on the outcome in the Shell case, while dividing in their reasoning… Human-rights advocates said before the Supreme Court decision that a ruling favoring Shell would undermine the ability of atrocity victims to hold their perpetrators accountable. Alleged victims have invoked the law more than 150 times in the past 20 years. [Also refers to ExxonMobil, Cisco, Chiquita, Siemens, Daimler, Rio Tinto]

属于以下案件的一部分

US Supreme Court issues decision in Kiobel v. Shell - Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply extraterritorially, affirms dismissal of case

Rio Tinto lawsuit (re Papua New Guinea)

案例简介:壳牌诉讼案(尼日利亚)基奥贝勒(Kiobel)诉壳牌公司案

ExxonMobil lawsuit (re Aceh)

案例摘要:思科系统公司诉讼案 (有关信息系统 - 中文版)

Daimler lawsuit (re Argentina)