Supreme Court to Re-hear Kiobel v. Shell, Focus on Extraterritoriality
It looks like the Supreme Court may not decide the corporate liability issue this year after all.
It looks like the Supreme Court may not decide the corporate liability issue this year after all.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.05.2012
The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon took the unusual action of ordering reargument in the case heard last week that has been brought against a multi...
Katie Redford | Posted 05.05.2012
Several news stories and blog posts suggest that the Supreme Court is prepared to grant corporations immunity from human rights lawsuits. That was not a conclusion I thought could be easily drawn after the hearing.
Valerie Brender | Posted 04.29.2012
Whatever happens with the Kiobel decision, it will be a watershed moment for corporate accountability.
Thom Hartmann | Posted 04.29.2012
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could give corporations the power to commit genocide with no consequences. The High Court has agreed to ...
Arvind Ganesan | Posted 04.29.2012
Should corporations have immunity for human rights abuses? Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that will decide whether corporations will be exempted from a crucial law that allows foreign victims of serious human rights abuses to sue them in US courts for civil damages.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.28.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning appeared divided along party lines, with a conservative majority ready to hold that corporations ca...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.28.2012
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether corporations, like real people, can be held liable in American ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.16.2011
This article is in collaboration with The Dylan Ratigan Show's "Mad As Hell" series. WASHINGTON -- A multinational oil company will be coming to th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Corporations can be held liable in U.S. courts for human rights violations committed abroad, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circu...
Ben Kerschberg | Posted 05.25.2011
A recent court decision being hailed as the end of the multi-billion dollar Alien Tort Statute litigation industry is anything but, as plaintiffs' cross-hairs will simply shift from corporations to the individuals who serve them.
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's just suppose for a moment, speaking hypothetically, that a private military contractor engaged in acts of torture. I write "hypothetically" beca...
Valerie Brender | Posted 05.25.2011
What happens when a country with a strong constitutional and statutory history of bringing torturers to justice suddenly discovers that its officials were the perpetrators?
Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Coca-Cola has long marketed itself as synonymous with American values. But after recent allegations that it covered up acts of murder and rape at a Guatemalan subsidiary, Coca Cola may face up to justice.
Scott Gilmore | Posted 05.25.2011
Why do police negotiators generally refuse to pay ransom for hostages? To do so would actually encourage more kidnappings by providing an incentive to would-be kidnappers.
Scott Gilmore | Posted 05.25.2011
What happens when an oil company gets its back to the wall in a human rights lawsuit? Like a cornered hound, it goes on the attack.
Katie Redford | Posted 05.05.2012