Denied

The United States Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a law on the books since 1991 precludes organizations, both political and corporate, from [being] sued for torture or murder outside of the U.S.

In a unanimous ruling on Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority (PDF), Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the careful text of the Torture Victims Protection Act of 1991, the way it is written “convinces us that Congress did not extend liability to organizations, sovereign or not.”

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The law does not specifically define “individual,” but it uses the word 13 times — a tripping [sic] point that led Justices to cite legal terminology in their ruling.

“We decline to read ‘individual’ so unnaturally,” Sotomayor wrote. “The ordinary meaning of the word, fortified by its statutory context, persuades us that the Act authorizes suit against natural persons alone.”

  Raw Story

Not to mention, a decision in favor would have left the US government in line for a lot of liability.