Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include Paul, Weiss partners Ted Wells and Alex Oh for their win on behalf of ExxonMobil in a long-running Alien Tort case.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C. dismissed all of the Alien Tort Statute claims alleging that the oil company—while operating its natural gas extraction facility in Aceh, Indonesia—was complicit in human rights violations committed by Indonesian soldiers against Acehnese citizens. Only garden-variety Indonesian tort law claims against ExxonMobil now remain at issue at the suit.
