 | Oren Perez - 2004 - 308 páginas
...Courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. What is interesting in this law is that it requires US courts to consider, directly, the rules and... | |
 | W. Frederick Zimmerman - 2004 - 354 páginas
...(2oo4) t 7 Opinion of the Court confers the privilege of suing for an actionable "tort . . . commitied in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States" on aliens alone. The fact that petitioners in these cases are being held in military custody is immaterial... | |
 | Radu Mareș - 2004 - 728 páginas
...courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. The Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment, and Assignment, Forfeiture, Bankruptcy etc.) Amendment... | |
 | Sally W. Stoecker, Louise I. Shelley - 2005 - 174 páginas
...the federal court to take jurisdiction over civil actions filed by aliens "based on a tort committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States." However, ATCA has never been used in cases of trafficking victims.39 One of the most significant aspects... | |
 | Erik Doxtader, Charles Villa-Vicencio - 2004 - 452 páginas
...courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.' While there have been many successes since the 1980 case of Filartiga v. Pena-Iral/f for claims in... | |
 | John F. Murphy - 2004 - 376 páginas
...US district courts "original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States."1 '' The ATCA was seldom invoked until 1980, when, in the landmark decision of Filartiga v.... | |
 | Pieter J. Slot, Mielle K. Bulterman, E.M. Meijers Instituut - 2004 - 323 páginas
...district courts with 'original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States'.2 The Statute has been interpreted to allow non-US citizens to seek civil damages in US courts... | |
 | Sarah Joseph - 2004 - 190 páginas
...courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.1 The ATCA was originally enacted as part of s 9 of the Judiciary Act in 1789, and lay largely... | |
 | Roy L. Brooks - 2004 - 364 páginas
...gives a federal court "original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United Srates. "2' The ATCA gives federal district courts subject-matter jurisdiction to enterrain suits against... | |
 | Mark Gibney - 2005 - 218 páginas
...courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States."3 As should be obvious, there really was no connection between the events that took place in... | |
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Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only, in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States... 
