On Feb. 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which Shell is accused of conspiring with the Nigerian military to arrest, torture and kill opponents of its pipeline in the Niger Delta.
Before oral argument, it was clear that the ruling could change fundamentally the way multinational corporations operate globally. Post-argument developments will determine whether federal courts will be permitted to adjudicate human rights lawsuits at all, when the underlying abuses do not originate within our borders.
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