Academic

Some Thoughts on Kiobel
I'd like to share some brief thoughts on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., the case in which the Supreme Court will likely decide whether the Alien Tort Statute confers federal jurisdiction over claims alleging corporate violations of customary international law...

Today in the Community: October 18, 2011
Today in the Community we are discussing suits in U.S. courts against corporations and political organizations for alleged human rights abuses abroad.  On Monday, the Court granted certiorari in Kiobel v...

Keitner on Kiobel and the future of the Alien Tort Statute
The following post, cross-posted on Opinio Juris, continues to analyze the import of the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, holding that corporations may not be sued under the Alien Tort Statute for violations of customary international law...

The Legal Historians' Brief in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic has posted a legal historians' brief in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum on Congress's intent in passing the Alien Tort Statute...

New Alien Tort Statute Case At The United States Supreme Court: Kiobel, et al., v Royal Dutch Petroleum Petition Filed
In Kiobel, et al., v Royal Dutch Petroleum, et al., lawyers for 12 individuals seeking to hold major oil companies legally responsible for human rights abuses in Nigeria in the 1990s have asked the Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court?s ruling that corporations are immune to such claims in U...

Alien Tort Claims Act: Kiobel cert petition
Last year, a divided Second Circuit decided Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, which ended three decades of abusive application of the Alien Tort Statute—an eighteenth-century federal law—against innocent-bystander corporate defendants through application of amorphous concepts of international law...

Wind and Hail Coverage
Allstate Corp. agrees to restore insurance coverage and pay $250,000 settlement.

Florida Medicaid
Limiting Coverage of Drugs for Kids

Health Coverage Canceled
Kaiser Permanente to pay $300,000 settlement in insurance lawsuit.

Blue Cross Blue Shield
alleging they have refused coverage for austic children