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Second Circuit Panel Finds Alien Tort Statute Does Not Apply to Corporations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2017
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1 28 U.S.C. §1350.
2 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 621 F.3d 111 (2d Cir. Sept. 17, 2010).
3 Id. at 123.
4 542 U.S. 692 (2004).
5 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 456 F.Supp.2d 457 (S.D.N.Y. 2006).
6 This summary appears on the court’s slip opinion (pages 1—2), at http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/opinions.htm.
7 621 F.3d at 127.
8 Id. at 125.
9 Id. at 131 (quoting Sosa, 542 U.S. at 732).
10 United States v. Krauch, 7 Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10 (1947)Google Scholar.
11 621 F.3d at 132.
12 Id. at 137–38.
13 Id. at 139.
14 Id. at 140.
15 Id. at 140–41.
16 Id. at 143. Judge Leval’s separate opinion criticizes the majority’s reference to the affidavits of Crawford and Greenwood, which they offered as expert witnesses in another case. This criticism prompted a lengthy rebuttal footnote in the majority opinion that, inter alia, questioned Judge Leval’s reliance upon a treatise authored by plaintiffs’ lead counsel. Id. at 143 n.47.
17 Id. at 149 (citations omitted).
18 Id. at 149–50 (Leval, J., concurring).
19 Id. at 152.
20 621 F.3d at 147 (cross-references and footnote omitted).