A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory in a landmark Alien Tort Statute case and a big U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit win for Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphones helped give Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan what founder John Quinn called "the best year of any appellate team in America."
On April 17, the Supreme Court issued a 9-0 ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. restricting lawsuits against U.S. companies doing business in areas of the world marked by human rights violations. Appellate practice head and former Stanford Law School dean Kathleen M. Sullivan argued the case for longtime client Shell before the court, which made the unusual request in early 2012 that Sullivan’s five-member team rebrief and argue whether the law applied to overseas conduct. Sullivan worked with partner Sanford Weisburst to develop the new argument from scratch in time for their hearing on the first day of the term, Sullivan said. "We’ve never had to do that before," she said.
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