They won a ruling from Federal District Court in San Francisco that the eviction law, properly interpreted, did not apply to offenses committed outside the apartment without the tenant's knowledge.
Similarly, the Cambodian court will only apply to crimes committed after 1975 and before 1979, leaving those - including, some say, the United States' Henry Kissinger - who created the climate which allowed the Khmer Rouge to flourish entirely unaccountable.
It said that a group of Nigerians could sue Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil group, in an American court, but later added that this did not apply to acts committed abroad.After Zedillo, Calderón?The decision will doubtless be closely watched by Felipe Calderón, Mexico's current president, whose term ends on December 1st.
And in 2013 the court ruled in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, regarding a foreign petroleum corporation's alleged complicity in human rights abuses in Nigeria, that the ATCA generally does not apply to torts committed in foreign countries though exceptions are possible in cases "where the claims touch and concern the territory of the United States" with "sufficient force".
Congress tried to give the commissions jurisdiction over conspiracies when it passed the Military Commissions Act, but the appeals courts have so far held that portion of the law does not apply to acts committed before 2006.
Although Congress tried to give the commissions jurisdiction over conspiracies when it passed the Military Commissions Act in 2006, the appeals courts have so far held that portion of the law does not apply to acts committed before 2006.
Defense analysts and sources downplayed news of those cuts, saying the discount hailed by Trump was in line with what had been flagged by Lockheed for months and would apply to other countries committed to the program.
That this exculpation would also apply to the crimes committed by Palestinians, who like the Jews in 1948, are still struggling for their own state, seems to have escaped Shavit and Morris' attention.
It does not apply to "an act committed by the mother of her unborn child," "a medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed medical professional at the request of a mother of her unborn child," or "the lawful dispensation or administration of lawfully prescribed medication".
The laws also recognize that some crimes are more egregious than others, a concept we have also applied to crimes committed in and around schools and against police officers.
