Avondale Shipyards, Inc. v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that private company utilizing slave labor may be subject to liability under the ATCA
• stating that defendant challenged plaintiff’s standing on the grounds that plaintiff did not meet the Article III requirements, not on the grounds that plaintiff was a non-resident alien
• finding allegations “that Unocal (1) conspired with its subsidiaries, affiliates and others to cause injury to plaintiffs, ... by entering into the Project with SLORC; (2
• noting, in dicta, that “an organization only has associational standing when it has a clear mandate from its membership to take the position asserted in the litigation”
• “[T]he Court invited the Department of State to express its views concerning the potential ramifications of this litigation on the foreign policy of the United States”
• “where the impact on foreign relations of the international issues presented is small, the justification for application of the act of state doctrine is commensurately weak”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).