Nigeria: Ogoni Killings - U.S. Supreme Court to Rule in Suit Against Shell

18 October 2011

United States Supreme Court said Monday it would decide whether Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) could be liable in the case of human abuses brought against the oil giant by families of the seven Ogoni indigenes executed by the late General Sani Abacha.

The court said it would use the dispute filed under the 1789 U.S law, called Alien Tort Statute, to decide whether companies can be held liable in the U.S courts for human rights violations abroad.

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