A Timeline of Human Rights
(Under Construction)
1792
United States Passes Alien Tort Claim Act
As interpreted 190 years later in Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, this law allows any person who has been a victim of any crime that violates international law to sue for damages in the United States, provided the accused perpatrator is in the US.
The ATCA reads, in it’s entirety.
The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.
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