On October 27, a far-reaching trial against the Chevron Corporation is set to open in San Francisco. Ten years ago, the Nigerian military shot at tribal protestors on a Chevron drilling platform in the Niger Delta. The case explores the company’s alleged complicity in killing one man and injuring three others. The suit was brought under the alien tort statute, which allows U.S. recovery for
overseas violations of the law of nations. In recent years there have been only a flurry of cases brought against corporations under the statute, which dates to the eighteenth century. But the plaintiffs bar is still gunning for its first trial victory on the theory of “corporate alien tort.”
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