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International Cases Filed in the USA

Multinational companies are increasingly being sued in the United States for their conduct in foreign countries under tort, human rights and labor law theories. Some of these actions are brought in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute and others are brought in foreign jurisdictions.

Release of Think Globally, Sue Locally However, trial attorneys and their advocates often are using abusive and often unscrupulous tactics in many of these cases. ILR recently published a "trial lawyer playbook" – "Think Globally, Sue Locally: Out-of-Court Tactics Employed by Plaintiffs, Their Lawyers and Their Advocates in Transnational Tort Cases" – to highlight these tactics and the implications they have for justice in the U.S. and around the world.

The study was released on June 21, 2010 with a presentation by the author and a panel discussion, video of which can be found here. You can also read the press release concerning the release of the study, as well as a Wall Street Journal op-ed by the study's author explaining his findings.

 

Issue Resources: International Cases Filed in the USA

A Brief Synopsis of Think Globally, Sue Locally: Out-of-Court Tactics Employed by Plaintiffs, Their Lawyers, and Their Advocates in Transnational Tort Cases

A Brief Synopsis of Think Globally, Sue LocallyOver the past 15 years, there has been a sharp rise of lawsuits brought against United States companies, as well as foreign companies with a substantial U.S. presence, that are premised on alleged personal or environmental injuries that occur overseas. Most of those transnational tort lawsuits have been filed in the United States by plaintiffs’ class action firms, public interest attorneys, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), while a growing number of notable actions also have been filed in foreign courts, with the plaintiffs seeking to obtain judgments they can enforce in the United States. With increasing frequency, plaintiffs, their attorneys and their advocates are employing aggressive out-of-court tactics that approach, straddle and sometimes cross ethical lines in seeking to gain litigation advantages. Think Globally, Sue Locally studies the trends associated with those tactics.

Source: Institute for Legal Reform
Released: Jun 21, 2010
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Think Globally, Sue Locally: Out-of-Court Tactics Employed by Plaintiffs, Their Lawyers, and Their Advocates in Transnational Tort Cases

This new study documents how plaintiffs’ attorneys and advocates are working with foreign plaintiffs and employing a common set of aggressive, out-of-court tactics that approach, straddle and sometimes cross ethical lines to gain litigation advantages against transnational companies. The first-of-its-kind study, released June 21, 2010 by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), also shows a dramatic increase in the number of global tort claims or transnational tort cases filed in the U.S. against American companies for alleged injuries that occur abroad.  LEARN MORE »

Source: Institute for Legal Reform
Released: Jun 21, 2010
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