Supremes let Shell lawsuit proceed

[Justin Schwartz]

Right. The Supremes haven't repealed the normally restrictive law of 
extraterritorial jurisdiction, or the sovereign immunity of foreign states. 
I haven't read the case yet; I will do so and report what it actually holds, 
as far as I can tell. --jks


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>
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> > This decision clears the way for the US courts becoming defacto world
> > courts - which is essentially a bad thing.  Next time we will hear a 
>case
> > against Cuba brought by some right wing Florida schmuck.
>
>I don't think this case lays that sort of precedent.  I think the grounds
>for letting the case go forward against Shell's protest that the courts
>had no jursidction was that Shell had a big enough corporate footprint
>here to make this count as a legitimate jurisdiction.  I don't think that
>argument would hold against Cuba or any similarly anathematized state.
>
>Michael
>
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>Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com
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