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Justice committee I think it would definitely be very helpful. If I have to speculate, which is always dangerous—
March 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Mark Erik Hecht
Justice committee Should this be successfully heard by the Supreme Court, I suspect they're going to read language into it, which may ultimately end up in the code anyway.
March 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Mark Erik Hecht
Justice committee Yes. I think what happened in that situation was an abomination.
March 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Mark Erik Hecht
Justice committee It would be an interesting test, I agree. What I can say is that it happens in civil litigation all the time. With multinational corporations, it happens all the time. They're held to a different standard in different jurisdictions. The U.S. has the Alien Tort Claims Act, which
March 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Mark Erik Hecht
Justice committee I will just add that with the work Beyond Borders does, we're always very cautious not to promote any kind of amendment to legislation that would be really operating in a vacuum. So with respect to the other times we've presented in front of committees, what we always tried to ra
March 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Mark Erik Hecht