BL Unit V Case Study

Washington Supreme Court Decision Name: Institution: Date: WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT DECISION The supreme court of the Washington in the United States made a ruling regarding a liability in the Narrows Aliens Statute company. The Supreme Court importantly narrowed the access of the Alien Tort Statute abbreviated as ATS, in its ruling on the seventeenth day of April two thousand and thirteen. However, there are some uncertainties on the way and in what terms the company is likely to be found liable for alleged international law violations in the United States. This violation is said to happen abroad as well, leading to complications in the ruling. The Supreme Court importantly narrowed the access of the Alien Tort Statute abbreviated as ATS, in its ruling on the seventeenth day of April two thousand and thirteen. Moreover, all the nine justices had the same opinion that a foreign firm with a simple presence within the United States was not worth suing under the Alien Tort Statute due to a supposedly abetting and aiding violations bearing usual international law, which also happens overseas. The issue regarded the plaintiffs, Kiobel who were Nigerian residents from the region of Nigeria in Ogoniland. Kiobel alleged that Dutch, British as well as Nigerian companies of oil were violating an international law through the aid that they offered and abetting the human rights abuses by the military of Nigeria, which was meant to restrain demonstrations against the oil companies’ activities. The plaintiffs sued these oil companies in a certain District based on the southern side of New York. In addition, the plaintiffs the dismissal of the district court of specific claims to the subsequent circuit that later maintained that the international law fails to distinguish corporate liability, proceeding to dismiss the whole complaints that were based on those grounds (Cheeseman, 2013). After the declaration of lack of grounds regarding the case, the Supreme Court also gr...