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The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: Flomo Et Al. v. Firestone Natural Rubber Co., LLC
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit website (visited Dec. 1, 2011) http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?submit=rss_sho&shofile=10-3675_002.pdf.
1 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (2006) (‘‘The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.’’).
2 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 621 F.3d 111 (2d Cir. 2010).
3 Flomo v. Firestone Natural Rubber Co., 643 F.3d 1013 (7 th Cir. 2011).
4 An Act To Establish the Judicial Courts of the United Sates ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73 (1789).
5 William Blackstone, Commentaries *68 (referring to ‘‘violation of safe conducts,’’ ‘‘infringement of the rights of ambassadors,’’ and piracy).
6 Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980).
7 Id. at 884. See also id. at 890 (‘‘[F]or purposes of civil liability, the torturer has become like the pirate and slave trader before him hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.’’).
8 Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004) (addressing whether a U.S. court has jurisdiction over claims of arbitrary arrest and detention by a foreign national against another foreign national).
9 Id. at 725.
10 Id. at 732, n.20.
11 Kiobel, 621 F.3d 111 (concluding that corporate liability is not recognized as a ‘‘specific, universal, and obligatory norm’’ of customary international law).
12 Flomo, 643 F.3d 1013.
13 Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC, Nos. 02–56256, 02–56390, 09– 56381, 2011 WL 5041927 (9 th Cir. Oct. 25, 2011).
14 Romero v. Drummond Co., 552 F.3d 1303, 1315 (11 th Cir. 2008).
15 Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 654 F.3d 11 (D.C. Cir. 2011).
16 Order, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 2011 WL 4905479, No. 10-1491 (Oct. 17, 2011).
17 Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 2011 WL 2326721, No. 10-1491 (June 6, 2011).
18 Flomo, 643 F.3d 1013.
19 Id. at 1017.
20 Id.
21 Id. at 1018.
22 Id.
23 Id.
24 Exxon, 654 F.3d 11.
25 Id. at 42.
26 Flomo, 643 F.3d at 1021.
27 Id. at 1022.
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