Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Alien Tort Statute
Constitutional Law Reporter
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
By a vote of 8-1, the Court held that to plead facts sufficient to support a domestic application of the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. Respondents’ suit failed for another reason, which does not require parsing allegations about where conduct occurred: We cannot create a cause of action that would let them sue petitioners.
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