Legal Opinion
Balintulo v. Daimler AG
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 21, 2013No. Docket 09-2778-cv(L), 09-2779-cv, 09-2780-cv, 09-2781-cv, 09-2783-cv, 09-2785-cv, 09-2787-cv, 09-2792-cv, 09-2801-cv, 09-3037-cvPublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
The question presented is whether to issue a writ of mandamus to resolve in favor of the defendants this long-lived litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) — a statute, passed in 1789, that was rediscovered and revitalized by the courts in recent decades to permit aliens to sue for alleged serious violations of human rights occurring abroad. The statute was first deployed in 1980 against individual defendants alleged to have perpetrated crimes against humanity, and beginning in 1997, some courts have extended its reach to suits against corporate…
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