Briefs Authored by Public Good

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• D.C. Circuit finds that SEC rule requiring manufacturers to disclose when minerals in their products were not found to be “DRC conflict-free” violates manufacturers’ First Amendment rights.
  • Nat’l Ass’n of Manufacturers v. SEC (U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit)
• Second Circuit stretches federal racketeering law to find that a pressure campaign against corporate misconduct constitutes a racketeering conspiracy.
  • Chevron Corp. v. Donziger (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit)
• United States Supreme Court makes it difficult to hold corporations and individuals liable for committing human rights violations in foreign countries.
  • Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit)

Briefs Joined By Public Good

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• Are corporations complicit in torture in foreign countries exempt from lawsuit in United States courts?
  • Mastafa v. Chevron Corp. (U.S. District Court, Southern District, New York)