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Doe v Exxon Mobil in 2011

United States views on international law (based on the document “Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law”): In 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also decided a case involving the question of corporate liability under the ATS. Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, 654 F.3d 11 (D.C. Cir. 2011). For additional background on the case, see this world legal encyclopedia in relation with the year 2002 at 357-63 (discussing the U.S. statement of interest filed at the district court level); World Encyclopedia of Law 2005 at 411-15 (excerpting the district court's decision dismissing the ATS claims in the case); World Encyclopedia of Law 2008 at 222-27 (discussing the U.S. amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court when it considered a petition for certiorari in the case). The United States did not participate in the case at the appeals court level.

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