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Challenges to the DOJ's Jurisdiction over Extraterritorial Conduct
September 01, 2016
The United States is often criticized for trying to be the world's policeman ' for trying to prosecute wrongdoing all over the world, even when the connection to U.S. interests is, at best, tenuous. The Supreme Court has in recent years begun imposing limits on the application of federal laws to wide swaths of extraterritorial conduct, in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, 561 U.S. 247 (2010), and related cases. The Court limited the extraterritorial reach of the federal securities laws (Morrison); limited the extraterritorial reach of the Alien Tort Statute (Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, 133 S. Ct. 1659 (2013)); and made it harder for U.S. courts to get personal jurisdiction over foreign defendants (Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct. 746 (2014). But to what extent does the Morrison line of cases help challenge the notion of the United States as the world's policeman?
Our answer is, not much. The Supreme Court's focus in recent years appears to be on limiting the ability of foreign civil plaintiffs to recover under U.S. law for wrongs committed abroad, leaving the DOJ's ability to prosecute misconduct around the world relatively intact. The most recent case in the Morrison line ' RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community, 136 S. Ct. 2090 (2016) ' was the first to address a criminal statute, and that case ended up barring civil plaintiffs from recovering under RICO for injuries that only took place abroad, while at the same time preserving the DOJ's ability to pursue criminal RICO charges stemming from the same conduct.
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