 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 2005 - 1496 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 Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 ("TVPA"), 28 USC § 1350, provides that [a]n individual who,... | |
 | Gillian Brock, Darrel Moellendorf - 2005 - 320 páginas
...in giving US federal courts "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 interpretation and scope of that statute is judicially disputed, most recently in the US Supreme... | |
 | Andrew P. Morriss, Samuel Estreicher - 2005 - 1026 páginas
...action and district court jurisdiction over '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'); see also MJ Wishnie, Immigrant Workers and the Domestic Enforcement of International Labor Rights,... | |
 | Martin Seegers - 2005 - 302 páginas
...district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an ahen for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States."586 Während danach Klagen von Ausländern wegen Völkerrechtsverletzungen möglich sind, bleibt... | |
 | Ralph D. McPhee - 2006 - 270 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."). [14] Rasul at 2698 ("nothing in Eisentrager or in any of our other cases categorically excludes aliens... | |
 | Michael B. Likosky - 2006 - 33 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 literature on ATCA is extensive. For a useful article on ATCA and labor rights see SH Cleveland... | |
 | Thomas J. Schoenbaum - 2006 - 307 páginas
...confers jurisdiction on the US courts to hear any "civil action by an alien for a tort . . . committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States." In a 1980 case, Filartiga v. Pena-Irala,2* a US Court of Appeals applied this law to allow a father... | |
 | John Horacio Keane - 2006 - 280 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'. 6 The statute lay dormant for almost two centuries. Only since the 1990s has it become increasingly... | |
 | George J. Andreopoulos, Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Peter H. Juviler - 2006 - 385 páginas
...possibility of jurisdiction in US district courts for "civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States" under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ACTA) (28 USC §1350), adopted in 1789. The ATCA became a basis for... | |
 | Mark Edward Lender - 2006 - 364 páginas
...the district courts in several instances. This would occur in cases in which aliens sued for torts "in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States," and in "suits at common law where the United States sue, and the matter in dispute amounts, exclusive... | |
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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... 
