Posted on 04/18/2013 9:42:01 AM PDT by oxcart
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to human-rights advocates Wednesday, in a case that was closely watched globally by human-rights groups and foreign governments.
The court limited the reach of a 224-year-old federal law that in recent decades has been used to hold foreign corporations and individuals accountable in U.S. courts for human-rights abuses abroad.
shut down a lawsuit brought by Nigerian citizens now living in the United States who sued Royal Dutch Petroleum, an Anglo-Dutch company, for allegedly aiding Nigerian forces in a violent crackdown in their country.
Although the justices unanimously agreed the lawsuit could not go forward, the court's decision left many questions unanswered.
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I have always wondered about the reasoning for allowing a US court to decide a case which emanated on foreign soil and in which only foreigners were involved - no string to the US whatsoever.
SCOTUS ping.
Let them sue whomever they want ON THEIR OWN DIME. We have enough lawsuits to slog through involving our own country.
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