With less than a month until the Supreme Court kicks off its 2012 term, we're looking forward to the first case the Court will consider on First Monday: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. If that name seems eerily familiar, it's because the Court also considered the case last term, before......
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In the case of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, scheduled for argument Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider curbing the modern scope of the Alien Tort Statute, which asserts U.S. jurisdiction over various human rights controvers... Read Post
This afternoon the Supreme Court asked for supplemental briefing and announced it would hear additional oral arguments next term in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which the Court is considering whether foreign nationals may fil... Read Post
Elizabeth Boomer of the AFL-CIO International Affairs Department sends us this. Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell), which pits a Nigerian plaintiff, Esther Kiobel, a... Read Post