Solicitor General’s Views Sought in Alien Tort Statute Case

The SCOTUSBlog has the relevant links.  The issue:

Whether Alien Tort Statute (ATS) jurisdiction can extend to a private actor based on alleged state action by a foreign government where there is no allegation that the government knew of or participated in the specific acts by the private actor claimed to have violated international law. Whether, absent state action, a complaint that a private actor has conducted a clinical trial of a medication without adequately informed consent can surmount the “high bar to new private causes of action” under the ATS.

(Note: I initially titled this as a cert. grant.  It wasn’t.)

–BC