Corporate Immunity Likely:SCOTUS Seems Ready To Side With Shell In Human Rights Suit

By Aunt Sam on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 8:31pm |

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning appeared divided along party lines, with a conservative majority ready to hold that corporations cannot be held accountable in federal courts for international human rights violations.......

In the end, however, Sullivan appeared to have the Court's five-justice majority of Republican appointees on her side, if the typically silent Justice Clarence Thomas sticks to his previously expressed narrow views on the Alien Tort Statute and general pro-business bent.

A decision in the case is expected by the end of June.

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