DALLAS — A federal court in Texas dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Côte d’Ivoire citizen against the nation’s president of Côte d’Ivoire and his wife, who allegedly oversaw major human rights violations including genocide during the country’s 2010-2011 civil war. The citizen’s claims under the Alien Tort Statute fail because that law doesn't apply extraterritorially, and all of the harms the citizen asserts occurred in Côte d’Ivoire.
Read the ruling **here and read the magistrate’s report here.
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