Legal Opinion
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 17, 2010No. Docket 06-4800-cv, 06-4876-cvPublishedCited by 430 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge LEVAL concurs only in the judgment of the Court dismissing the complaint and files a separate opinion.
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
Once again we consider a ease brought under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”), 28 U.S.C. § 1350,1 a jurisdictional provision unlike any other in American law and of a kind apparently unknown to any other legal system in the world. Passed by the first Congress in 1789, the ATS lay *116largely dormant for over 170 years. Judge Friendly called it a “legal Lohengrin” — “no one seems to know whence it came.”2 Then, in 1980, the statute was given new life, when our…
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