Fourth Circuit: Farhan Warfaa v. Yusuf Ali

International

ATS claim barred under the presumption against extraterritorial application, as it does not extensively and directly touch and concern the USA.

Foreign officials cannot claim sovereign immunity in TVPA actions alleging jus cogens violations.

Concur/Dissent: Deft is non-adventitiously a lawful permanent resident who earlier did military training in the USA, so ATS allows the claim.

http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/141810.P.pdf