Supreme Court Rules Foreign Corporations Not Liable Under Alien Tort Statute

On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court held in Jesner et al. v. Arab Bank, PLC that the Alien Tort Statue (“ATS”), which has been extensively used during recent decades by foreign plaintiffs to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts for alleged international human rights law violations, may not be used to impose liability on foreign corporations. Click here for more.
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