5th Circ. Nixes Human Trafficking Suit Against KBR

By Michelle Casady (January 4, 2017, 2:50 PM EST) -- A split panel of judges on the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court's toss of a suit accusing Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. of violating the Alien Tort Statute and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, citing Supreme Court precedent that they do not apply "extraterritorially."...

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