In Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that foreign corporations may not be defendants in suits brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). However, a sharply divided Court did not agree on the reasoning, which leaves many questions unanswered. Most notably, the justices did not address whether U.S. corporations could be sued under the ATS.
