[WayneS]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations cannot be sued in American courts for human rights abuses overseas.

Why would anyone think otherwise?

[Lurking Libertarian]

Why would anyone think otherwise?

The plaintiff's legal argument was based on a law passed back in 1789, and still on the books, which says that an "alien" can sue in U.S. federal court for a "tort in violation of the law of nations." Their factual argument was that payments used to fund terrorism were funneled through bank accounts in New York.