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: JURIST - The Paper ChaseFederal appeals court upholds verdict for Shell in Nigeria protest deaths
By Andrea Bottorff
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[JURIST] Judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Friday upheld [opinion, PDF] a verdict in favor of Royal Dutch Shell PLC [corporate website] in a case brought by families of Nigerian protesters who were executed [UNHCR backgrounder] by the previous Nigerian government in 1995 for speaking out against the oil company. The court ruled that the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) [text] does not apply to corporations, relieving Shell of liability for alleged compli read more
Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on September 18, 2010 (boomark / email).
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