alien-tort-statute

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-856 Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Granted CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act 1. Whether the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting. 2. Whether,…
24A450 Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Presumed Complete aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application human-rights international-law Question not identified.
24-5134 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. Texas 2024-07-25 Denied IFP alien-tort-statute civil-rights-violations convention-against-torture dual-citizenship due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law international-treaties sovereign-immunity torture torture-prevention 1) May a case demanding relief to a dual citizen with dominant nationality as an alien and her child, injured by US naturals who committed tortures, f…
23-545 Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd Ngola Mbandi, et al. v. Pangea Adventures LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied alien-tort-statute civil-rights federal-question first-amendment free-speech human-rights international-law retaliation self-determination standing 1) Whether aliens of the Hebrew Israelite Kingdom/Nation self-determination, self-governing and autonomy, expressive first amendment retaliatory tort …
23-5888 Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing Question not identified.
19-648 CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) alien-tort-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-immunity civil-rights collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine derivative-sovereign-immunity due-process federal-contractor government-contractors jus-cogens military-operations sovereign-immunity Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the courts of appeals "have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts." This Court has held that…
19-453 Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-04 Judgment Issued CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality forced-labor foreign-operations human-rights international-law 1. Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute is displaced by allegations that a U.S. company generally co…
19-416 Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction 1. Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extrat…
18-1315 Hmong 1, et al. v. Lao People's Democratic Republic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied alien-tort-statute cia genocide head-of-state-immunity heads-of-state heads-of-state-immunity secret-war state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction torture war-crimes Whether petitioners/survivors of the atrocities committed by the Laos communist government met their pleading burden under the Alien Tort Claims Act b…