The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Cisco Systems that could significantly reshape how American companies ...

A District Court judge for the Southern District of New York last week denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss in the seminal Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) case, In Re South African ...

The next Citizens United, in the view of some of that decision's most vigorous critics, may have nothing to do with campaign finance or the First Amendment. Instead, corporations in a case the ...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether two federal laws that allow lawsuits in U.S. courts for torture and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will review an appeal by Cisco Systems and the Trump administration to restrict a federal law alleging ...

From Judge Tiffany Cartwright (W.D. Wash.) in Friday's Jan v. People Media Project: Plaintiff Almog Meir Jan is an Israeli citizen who was kidnapped on October 7 and held hostage by Hamas operative ...

The US Supreme Court will consider putting new limits on lawsuits against companies over atrocities abroad, agreeing to hear ...

In his Foreign Relations Law column, Samuel Estreicher discusses how a Ninth Circuit panel in 'Doe I v. Cisco Systems' recently gave new life to the Alien Tort Statute, which has become a major focus ...

Sept 30 (Reuters) - The 33-word Alien Tort Statute, at the center of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, was enacted by the First Congress in 1789. It reads: "The district courts shall ...

On Friday, attorneys for victims of human rights violations are filing briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, a civil lawsuit that brought under one of the country's oldest ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Cisco Systems' appeal to limit a federal law used to hold corporations accountable for human ...