In the past week, Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Judge Judith Rogers of the D.C. Circuit both lined up behind corporate liability for human rights violations under the U.S. Alien Tort Statute. Posner provokes, but it is Rogers who sets the agenda for U.S. human rights litigation over the next five years.

The “corporate alien tort” was snuffed out in the Second Circuit in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum last year. Plaintiffs filed a U.S. Supreme Court cert petition in June, after the Second Circuit deadlocked
5 to 5 in declining to grant an en banc rehearing.

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