Legal Opinion
Kadic v. Karadžić
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 13, 1995No. Nos. 1541, 1544, Dockets 94-9035, 94-9069PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
Most Americans would probably be surprised to learn that victims of atrocities committed in Bosnia are suing the leader of the insurgent Bosnian-Serb forces in a United States District Court in Manhattan. Their claims seek to build upon the foundation of this Court’s decision in Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir.1980), which recognized the important principle that the venerable Alien Tort Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (1988), enacted in 1789 but rarely invoked since then, validly creates federal court jurisdiction for suits alleging torts committed anywhere in…
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