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U.S. District Court Dismisses Alien Tort Claims Suit Against Canadian Oil Company for Events in Sudan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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References

1 Presbyterian Church of the Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., No. 01 CIS 982 (DLC), 2006 WL 2602145 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 12, 2006) (opinion and order). For earlier stages of the litigation, see Presbyterian Church of the Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., 244 F.Supp.2d 289 (2003), Presbyterian Church of the Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., 226 F.R.D. 456 (S.D.N.Y. 2005), and Presbyterian Church of the Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., 374 F.Supp.2d 331, 332 (S.D.N.Y. 2005).

2 Slip op. at 1.

3 Id. at 2.

4 Id. at 51.

5 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 126 S.Ct. 2749, 2784 (2006).

6 Slip op. at 54.

7 Mat 56–57.

8 Id. at 64.

9 Id. at 64, 72.

10 Id. at 67.