Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe · ¶99
Today, too, providing an American forum for international-law violations can improve foreign relations, as evidenced by the fact that foreign sovereigns have sometimes filed briefs expressing support for ongoing ATS litigation. See, e.g., In re Estate of Ferdinand Marcos Hum. Rights Lit igation, 94 F. 3d 539, 547 (CA9 1996) (noting that the Philippines “urged” an ATS “suit to proceed in American courts” because “‘relations may well be improved if Filipino citizens see that justice is available in U. S. courts’”); Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC, 671 F. 3d 736, 756 (CA9 2011) (noting that Papua New Guinea “expressly urged” that an ATS aiding-andabetting case “‘be heard by courts in the United States’” because it would not “‘adversely affec[t] any relations between [Papua New Guinea] and the United States’”), judgt. vacated, 569 U. S. 945 (2013). Former United States Ambassadors-at-Large for War…Read in context ›
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