USSC Lets Stand Dismissal of ATS Case

On Monday, the Court refused to take up the 9th Circuit’s dismissal of an Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act case:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a human rights lawsuit against Occidental Petroleum Corp and a security contractor that had accused them of complicity in a deadly 1998 bombing by Colombia’s military of a village in the South American country.

The court left intact a November 2014 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stating that victims’ families could not pursue claims against Occidental and Florida-based AirScan Inc under two U.S. human rights laws, the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victims Protection Act.

These cases have been dismissed on a regular basis since the 2013 Kiobel ruling.  Reuters has the story.