M. Anderson Berry, Whether Foreigner or Alien: A New Look at the Original Language of the Alien Tort Statute, 27 Berkeley Journal of Int'l Law, 316 (2009), cited in Second Circuit re: In re Apartheid: BRIEF OF AMICI FEDERATION OF GERMAN INDUSTRIES,ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN CHAMBERS OF INDUSTRY ANDCOMMERCE, AND GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBERS OFCOMMERCE, IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS (see p.26, fn.2)

Oliver Ellsworth: principle architect of the Judiciary Act of 1789 (and the ATS)

Paine Wingate's Annotated Copy of 'A bill to establish the judicial courts of the United States'

Sometime between June 16th and July 17th, 1789, Senator Paine Wingate of New Hampshire made these annotations on his personal copy of the Judicial Bill (which eventually became the Judiciary Act of 1789) as the Senate debated. These copies were sent to me from the Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College (Call No. E 310 .B54).

ATS in the Judiciary Act

A Bill to Establish the Judicial Courts

Printed Draft ordered by the House July 20, 1789

Page 4 (including the sentence that later became the ATS)

Now you can search the Mass Ratification Docs

go to: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ratification/massachusetts.asp

What would Justice Jackson do?

The Art of Ben Sakoguchi: http://www.bensakoguchi.com/index.html
Korematsu v. US: http://beta.oyez.org:8080/cases/case/?case=1940-1949/1944/1944_22

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