Allen v. Rampey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• permitting an action if “the Government has breached a duty under federal law that is analogous to a duty of care recognized by state law.”
• rejecting plaintiffs’ argument that the ATS waived the United States’ sovereign immunity
• A International treaties are not presumed to create rights that are privately enforceable. @
• “[T]he [ATS] has been interpreted as a jurisdictional statute only—it has not been held to imply any waiver of statutory immunity.”
• “The subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts is defined by any conditions the United States attaches to its waiver of immunity.”
• same as to Hague Convention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).