Daimlerchrysler Ag v. Bauman (571 U.S. 117)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided January 14, 2014 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 571 U.S. 117 · 134 S. Ct. 746
- Docket
- No. 11-965
- Argued
- October 15, 2013
- Decided
- January 14, 2014
- Term
- October Term 2013
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Ginsburg
- Issue area
- Due Process
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg (wrote), Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, Justice Kagan
- Concurring in the judgment
- Justice Sotomayor (wrote)
Oral argument transcript and advocates · Opinion on Justia
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2013 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus DAIMLER AG v. BAUMAN ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 11–965. Argued October 15, 2013—Decided January 14, 2014 Plaintiffs (respondents here) are twenty-two residents of Argentina who filed suit in California Federal District Court, naming as a defendant DaimlerChrysler Aktiengesellschaft (Daimler), a German public stock company that is the predecessor to petitioner Daimler AG. Their complaint alleges that Mercedes-Benz Argentina (MB Argenti- na), an Argentinian subsidiary of Daimler, collaborated with state se- curity forces during Argentina’s 1976–1983 “Dirty War” to kidnap, detain, torture, and kill certain MB Argentina workers, among them, plaintiffs or persons closely related to plaintiffs. Based on those alle- gations, plaintiffs asserted claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, as well as under California and Argentina law. Personal…
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