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...human rights group EarthRights International brought Unocal to federal court in Los Angeles on behalf of Burmese villagers suffering from the alleged violations during pipeline construction, which ended in 1998. The suit, Doe v. Unocal, was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, a 1789 law that allows aliens to sue in U.S. courts for violations of international law. The group pursued a separate suit in California state court...
...Dylan, can you explain tort reform...
...That is not entirely true. Republican moderates showed their power in the Senate last week, and they did so by hammering out deals with Democrats. There also was cooperation on the recent bankruptcy and tort-reform bills. But Reid and Frist are not talking-at all-about the really divisive issues, especially the coming showdown over judicial appointments. Frist, who may run for President, wants to show conservatives that he can be a tough guy on an issue that is paramount to them. Reid is not about to abandon his successful stubbornness...
...Employing a little-known 1789 law called the Alien Tort Claims Act, the suit argued that by virtue of its partnership with the junta, Unocal "aided and abetted" the Burmese army as its soldiers allegedly burned a baby to death, raped women and girls and forced villagers into slave labor to clear a path for the pipeline. Unocal has declined to comment beyond the statement outlining the settlement, which says that the company "respects human rights in all of its activities...
...code--which includes entertaining such ideas as entirely abolishing the Internal Revenue Service by going to a national sales tax. You cannot get more radical than that. His subsidiary aims, earthshaking in any other context but almost minor in this one, are kneecapping the lawsuit industry with serious tort reform and installing a conservative judiciary that will long outlive his presidency...