TRU Exploration, LLC, TRU Exploration \Creating TRU Partners\, LLC, Trent Trubenbach and Donna Burton v. Energy Exploration I, LLC and Energy Exploration II, LLC

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• holding that the ATS does not apply to foreign corporations
• acknowledging that “[t]he 2 political branches, not the Judiciary, have the responsibility and institutional 3 capacity to weigh foreign-policy concerns”
• noting that we are bound to follow our precedent unless there is “conflict, incompatibility, or inconsistency” between it and a intervening Supreme Court decision (quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• finding that courts must defer to Congress regarding the creation of a damages remedy “if there are sound reasons to think Congress might doubt the efficacy or necessity” of such a remedy
• refusing to imply a cause of action against foreign corporation for terrorist activities that was not expressly provided for by Congress in the plain text of the Alien Tort Statute
• noting the 7 “[Supreme] Court’s general reluctance to extend judicially created private rights of action,” citing 8 Abbasi

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