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Offline CG6468

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Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« on: January 29, 2013, 02:51:10 PM »
Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2013, 02:51:47 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on January 29, 2013, 02:51:10 PM
Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?

I voted Never. Not in a US court.
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2013, 02:55:14 PM »
CG, you talking about this abomination?

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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2013, 02:56:49 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on January 29, 2013, 02:55:14 PM
CG, you talking about this abomination?

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Great example, Eupher.
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2013, 03:02:11 PM »
I'd say - hesitantly - no.

International law - such as that is - provides a mechanism whereby a person, corporation, or legal entity can sue a another legal entity of a different nationality.

Of course, if you're the plaintiff and you need to sue somebody to claim damages in an international court, good luck with that. You'll probably be dead and buried by the time the "court" rules.  :whatever:
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2013, 03:19:19 PM »
If they are in the US legally and something happens to them that is caused by an American Citizen, yes they should be allowed to file suit in accordance with American law in an American court.
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2013, 06:18:11 PM »
I'd say no . It would be to easy for some tourist to claim they were harmed by some gun maker when some Hoodrat shot them during a robbery and since the Hoodrat got away them the gun makers get hit with a suit and I don't think the law here in the US would apply to a foreign person. Then again I maybe wrong.
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2013, 04:33:47 PM »
George H. W. Bush signed into law the Alien Tort Statute, which allows US and foreign citizens to sue in case of torture or extra-judicial killings in a US Court.

http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faqs/factsheet%3A-alien-tort-statute
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2013, 04:41:45 PM »
Quote from: Apple John Hointy on January 30, 2013, 04:33:47 PM
George H. W. Bush signed into law the Alien Tort Statute, which allows US and foreign citizens to sue in case of torture or extra-judicial killings in a US Court.

http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faqs/factsheet%3A-alien-tort-statute

Which doesn`t seem to have anything to do with the topic.
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Re: Should foreigners be allowed to sue US citizens?
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2013, 04:45:50 PM »
Quote from: Apple John Hointy on January 30, 2013, 04:33:47 PM
George H. W. Bush signed into law the Alien Tort Statute, which allows US and foreign citizens to sue in case of torture or extra-judicial killings in a US Court.

http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faqs/factsheet%3A-alien-tort-statute

Great, AJH.  :whatever:  How does that law apply to:

  • A foreigner who gets screwed over by an American lawyer during that foreigner's process in becoming naturalized?
  • A foreigner whose financial assets gets swallowed up by an American bank?
  • A foreigner whose anchor baby (now an adult) who gets mixed up with an illegal?

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