Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe · ¶86

The majority, however, is in a rush. Not wanting to dally on niceties like binding precedent, or to confine itself to deciding the case before it, the majority casts aside Sosa’s two- step framework altogether. It disclaims any future authority by any court to find additional causes of action in all cases to come, even though it declines to disturb the three implied causes of action previously recognized under the ATS. Ante, at 1. In short, it overturns Sosa. In doing so, the Court brushes past the stare decisis factors that this Court considers when deciding whether to overturn precedent. It also slams the door in the faces of victims of horrific mistreatment without giving any reason to think that Congress, whom the Court purports to respect, would have wanted to do so. The majority errs at each turn.

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