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Supreme Court Again Reins in Scope of Claims Under the Alien Tort Statute

In Nestle, six citizens of Mali claimed they were trafficked into and enslaved on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast. Pursuant to the ATS, these former child slaves sought to impose liability upon Nestle, Cargill, and other U.S....more

6/25/2021 / Alien Tort Statute , Cargill , Cargill Inc. v Doe I , Extraterritoriality Rules , Human Rights , Nestle , Nestle USA Inc. v Doe I , SCOTUS

Second Circuit: Discovery Statute Reaches Documents Held Overseas by U.S. Entities - Multinational corporations with U.S....

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ruled that a New York-based affiliate of a global financial institution could be forced to produce documents for use in foreign proceedings even if those documents...more

10/21/2019 / 28 U.S.C. § 1782 , Discovery , Document Productions , Due Process , Extraterritoriality Rules , Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , Foreign Jurisdictions , International Litigation , Personal Jurisdiction

Second Circuit Construes Civil RICO's "Domestic Injury" Requirement

The Background: A Chilean plaintiff filed a civil RICO action against a Chilean defendant based on the latter's pattern of misappropriation of the former's assets. The Issue: The defendant sought to dismiss the action...more

11/30/2017 / Cause of Action Accrual , Chile , Domestic Injury , Extraterritoriality Rules , Racketeering , RICO , RJR Nabisco , RJR Nabisco v European Community , SCOTUS , Tangible Property

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