While I am going to do my best to stick to my original plan for introducing the October 2017 Supreme Court term's major cases, there is just so much going on that some additions and diversions (including not always doing two cases at a time) will be inevitable. One addition to the blog, starting with this post, is "Cases on My Radar", which will be cases I have learned about that are (1) important, (2) interesting, (3) likely to make it to the Supreme Court, or (4) odd (in a good way). And by the way, if you see a case that you want to be on this blog's radar, let me know in the "Post a Comment" section. October 11 : Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) grants jurisdiction to federal district courts to hear cases "of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only, in violation of a law of nations or of a treaty of the United Staes". A good summary from LLI : "According to Law Professor George Fletcher, “the kind of to
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