Kelsey Dallas
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10:00 AM
For those just joining - we're expecting the first opinion any minute. There are three boxes today, so we are going to get several decisions.
First opinion is from Barrett, in CIsco Systems v. Doe.
The vote is 6-3
This is a lawsuit brought by practitioners of the Falun Gong religion, who contend that they or family members were victims of human rights abuses committed in China. They contend that Cisco Systems helped the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party to create a massive online surveillance system to find Falun Gong practitioners.
Zachary Shemtob
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10:01 AM
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-856_kjfm.pdf
Amy Howe
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10:01 AM
The case as it came to the Supreme Court was about whether the plaintiffs could rely on either the Alien Tort Statute, a 1789 law that allows foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts for serious violations of international law, or the Torture Victim Protection Act, a 1992 law that allows suits against individuals who subject others to torture while acting on behalf of a foreign government, to sue Cisco for aiding and abetting the human rights abuses.
Justice Kavanaugh has the next in Exxon Mobil v. Corporacion Cimex.
Rory K. Little
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10:06 AM
SS wrote long but already read from the bench in Callais, no? They usually read only one dissent, at most, from the bench....
Amy Howe
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10:06 AM
The vote is 6-3, and the decision of the DC Circuit is reversed and remanded.
Zachary Shemtob
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10:06 AM
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-699_f204.pdf
Amy Howe
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10:06 AM
The question in this case was whether the Helms-Burton Act, a 1996 law that allows U.S. nationals to bring a lawsuit against anyone who “traffics in property” confiscated by the Cuban government after 1959, trumps the normal presumption, under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, that foreign governments cannot be sued in U.S. courts, or whether plaintiffs in lawsuits brought under the Helms-Burton Act must show that they can meet one of the exceptions under the FSIA to that normal presumption.
Zachary Shemtob
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10:06 AM
Again, an ideological split
Mark Walsh
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10:06 AM
Based on a three-box day, it is not a surprise that there are no R numbers yet.
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