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KIOBEL v. ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM CO.

Docket Nos. 06-4800-cv, 06-4876-cv.

621 F.3d 111 (2010)

Esther KIOBEL, individually and on behalf of her late husband, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, Bishop Augustine Numene John-Miller, Charles Baridorn Wiwa, Israel Pyakene Nwidor, Kendricks Dorle Nwikpo, Anthony B. Kote-Witah, Victor B. Wifa, Dumle J. Kunenu, Benson Magnus Ikari, Legbara Tony Idigima, Pius Nwinee, Kpobari Tusima, individually and on behalf of his late father, Clement Tusima, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM CO., Shell Transport and Trading Company PLC, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Shell Petroleum Development Company Of Nigeria, Ltd., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Hoffman , Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice, CA ( Stephen A. Whinston , Carey R. D'Avino , Keino R. Robinson , Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Rowan D. Wilson ( Rory O. Millson , Thomas G. Rafferty , Michael T. Reynolds , on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Jeffrey J. Keyes , Briggs and Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, MN ( Mark Girouard , Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for amici curiae International Law Professors in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Naomi Roht-Arriaza , San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae International Law Scholars Cherif Bassiouni, et al. in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Judith Brown Chomsky ( Jennifer M. Green , on the brief), Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY ( Marcos Simons , Richard Herz , Earthrights International, Washington, DC, on the brief), for amici curiae Wiwa Plaintiffs in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

William Aceves , California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, for amici curiae International Law Scholars in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Judge LEVAL concurs only in the judgment of the Court dismissing the complaint and files a separate opinion.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

Once again we consider a case brought under the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350,1 a jurisdictional provision unlike any other in American law and of a kind apparently unknown to any other legal system in the world. Passed by the first Congress in 1789, the ATS laid largely dormant for over 170 years. Judge Friendly called it a "legal Lohengrin...

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