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At the same time, countries including Cuba and Venezuela had pushed for more explicit language on alleged extraterritorial human rights violations during the negotiations.
In addition, a considerable number of British cases, decided in the absence of national legislation expressly enabling claims for extraterritorial human rights abuses and therefore based on principles of common-law tort, have revealed a willingness to hold corporations liable for human rights violations perpetrated abroad.
Justice Kennedy went on to quote from a brief supporting the companies filed by the Chevron Corporation: "No other nation in the world permits its court to exercise universal civil jurisdiction over alleged extraterritorial human rights abuses to which the nation has no connection".
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The past decade has also witnessed legal scholars beginning to address the challenges raised by the human rights obligations of states beyond their borders, which are referred to as extraterritorial or transnational obligations.
Now there was "extraterritorial action".
Extraterritorial sanctions are always problematic.
But the second constraint is extraterritorial and financial.
Previous American administrations have waived similar extraterritorial sanctions.
Certainly, extraterritorial terrorism prosecutions would be a nonstarter.
Or, and perhaps more interesting: "A statute presumptively has no extraterritorial application".
Its extraterritorial pretension riles even many of America's closest allies.
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