Legal Opinion
Smith v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 26, 1996No. Nos. 1241, 1572 and 1573, Dockets 95-7930, 95-7931 and 95-7942PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
In Kadic v. Karadzic, 70 F.3d 232 (2d Cir.1995), this Court ruled that a violation of certain fundamental norms of international law can be redressed by a civil suit brought in a United States district court against private citizens under the Alien Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (1994). The pending appeal presents the issue of whether such violations can be redressed by a civil suit brought in a United States district court against a foreign state. The more precise issue is whether such a suit — brought primarily on behalf of victims of an aircraft bombing — is…
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