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Second Circuit Issues Divided Ruling on “Aiding and Abetting” Rights Violations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008

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References

1 28 U.S.C. §1350(2000).

2 In his separate opinion, see infra note 3, slip. op. at 39, Judge Katzman cited the following cases: Almog v. Arab Bank, PLC, 471 F.Supp.2d 257,287 (E.D.N.Y. 2007), Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., 453 F.Supp.2d 633, 668 (S.D.N.Y. 2006); Bowoto v. Chevron Corp., No. C 99-02506 SI, 2006 WL 2455752, *3-4 (N.D.Cal. Aug. 22,2006); and/« re “Agent Orange”Prod. Liab. Litig, 373 F.Supp.2d7, 52-54 (E.D.N.Y. 2005).

3 504 F.3d 254 (2d Cir. Oct. 12, 2007) (per curiam). The citations here are taken from the slip opinion, which is available at <http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov>.

4 28 U.S.C. §1350 note (2000).

5 18 U.S.C. §§1961-1968 (2000).

6 In re S. African Apartheid Litig., 346 F.Supp.2d 538, 542 (S.D.N.Y. 2004).

7 Khulumani, slip. op. at 8.

8 Id. at 9.

9 Id. at 12.

10 Id. at 14 n.13.

11 Id. at 26-27 (Katzman, J., concurring) (quoting Flores v. S. Peru Copper Corp., 414 F.3d 233 at 248 (2d Cir. 2003)).

12 542 U.S. 692 (2004). Sosa restricted ATCA liability to claims for violations of international legal norms that are broadly accepted and that are defined with a degree of specificity comparable to offenses such as piracy, violation of safe conducts, and infringement of the rights of ambassadors.

13 Kbulumani, slip op. at 27-38 (Katzman, J., concurring).

14 July 17, 1998, 2187 UNTS 3.

15 Khulumani, slip op. at at 39 (Katzman, J., concurring).

16 Id. at 52, 55 (Hall, J., concurring).

17 Id. at 58.

18 Id. at 60.

19 Id. at 74-75 (Korman, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part) (citing Sosa, 542 U.S. at 733 n.21).

20 Mat 68-69.

21 Id. at 147.