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Major Corporations Settle Alien Tort Statute Cases Following Adverse Appellate Rulings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

John R. Crook
John R. Crook*
Affiliation:
General International and U.S. Foreign Relations Law
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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 103 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 592 - 593
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Copyright © 2009 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 28 U.S.C. §1350.

2 Q&A: Nigeria Sues Pfizer (June 5, 2007), at http://news.bbc.co.Uk/2/hi/africa/6721771.stm.Google Scholar

3 Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc., 562 F.3d 163,176-77 (2009; as amended Mar. 24,2009); Stephens, Joe Suits Saying Pfizer Experimented on Nigerian Children Are Revived, Wash. Post, Jan. 31, 2009, at A7Google Scholar.

4 562 F.3d at 177-88.

5 Id. at 174.

6 Id. at 191 (Wesley, J., dissenting). The majority disagreed, asserting that the dissent’s “approach to customary international law is unselfconsciously reactionary and static.” 562 F.Supp.3d at 188.

7 Pfizer Press Statement, Pfizer Responds to Divided Ruling by U.S. Court of Appeals for 2nd Circuit in Cases Related to Trovan Study in Nigeria (Jan. 30, 2009), at http://www.pfizer.com/news/press_releases/pfizer_ press_statements_archive.jsp.

8 Stephens, Joe Pfizer Reaches Settlement in Nigerian Drug- Trial Case, Wash. Post, Apr. 4, 2009, at A3Google Scholar; Pfizer Agrees on Deal in Nigeria Drug Suit (Apr. 3, 2009), at http://www.france24.eom/en/20090403-pfizer-agrees-deal-nigeria-drug-suit Google Scholar; Nigeria State, Pfizer to Settle out of Court—Lawyers (Apr. 3, 2009), at http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL342467820090403?sp=true.Google Scholar

9 Mouawad, Jad Oil Industry on Trial, N.Y. Times, May 22, 2009, at B1Google Scholar; Mouawad, Jad Shell Agrees to Settle Abuse Case for Millions, N.Y. Times, June 9, 2009, at B1.Google Scholar

10 Center for Constitutional Rights Press Release, Statement of the Plaintiffs in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell, Wiwa v. Anderson and Wiwa v. SPDC (June 8,2009), at http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/statement-plaintiffs-wiwa-v.-royal-dutch/shell%2C-wiwa-v.-anderson-and-wiwa-v.

11 The June 8, 2009, settlement documents are at http://www.earthrights.org/files/Legal%20Docs/Wiwa%20v%20Shell/Wiwa-v-Shell-agreements-and-orders.pdf.