United States: Human Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe fundamentally reshapes the landscape of international human rights litigation in American courts. By ruling that federal courts cannot create new causes of action under the Alien Tort Statute and that the Torture Victim Protection Act does not provide for aiding-and-abetting liability, the Court has effectively closed the door on decades of litigation targeting U.S. businesses for alleged human rights violations abroad. What does this

Nearly 30 years ago, Dr. Ezra L. Totton, a distinguished Black professor of chemistry, bequeathed $35,000 to the University of Iowa to establish a scholarship...

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