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Introductory Remarks by Mark A. Drumbl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Mark A. Drumbl*
Affiliation:
Ethan Allen, Washington & Lee University

Abstract

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Type
The Alien Tort Claims Act Under Attack
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 28 U.S.C. §1350.

2 Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, 630 F. 2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980).

3 Id. See also Abebe-Jira v. Negewo, 72 F.3d 844 (11th Cir. 1996).

4 Kadic v. Karadzic, 70 F.3d 232 (2d Cir. 1995).

5 Id.

6 Hwang Geum Joo v. Japan, 332 F.3d 679 (D.C. Cir. 2003); Doe I v. Islamic Salvation Front, 993 F.Supp. 3 (D.D.C. 1998).

7 Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., 244 F.Supp.2d 289 (S.D.N.Y. 2003); Doe I v. Unocal Corp., Nos. 00-56603 & 00-56628, 2003 WL 359787 (9th Cir. Feb. 14, 2003, vacated and rehearing granted).

8 In re South African Apartheid Litigation, MDL No. 1499 (S.D.N.Y. 2004, pending litigation).

9 Xuncax v. Gramajo, 886 F. Supp. 162 (D. Mass. 1995).

10 Id.

11 Flores v. S. Peru Copper Corp., 343 F.3d 140 (2d Cir. 2003).

12 Bano v. Union Carbide Corp., 361 F.3d 696 (2d Cir. 2004).

13 Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc., 303 F.3d 470 (2d Cir. 2002); Beanal v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc., 197 F.3d 161 (5th Cir. 1999).

14 For a discussion of corporate liability under the ATCA, see Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 226 F.3d 88 (2d Cir. 2000); Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola Co., 256 F.Supp. 2d 1345 (S.D.Fla. 2003); Presbyterian Church, supra note 7.

15 Certiorari to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Alvarez-Machain v. Sosa and the United States, 331 F.3d 604 (9th Cir. 2003).