Nutty ninth strikes again

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In Sarei v. Rio Tinto, the nutty ninth (with an en banc 6-5 decision on some matters and 7-4 on others) , the Court decided that, as Senior Judge Andrew Kleinfeld put it, to assert that “the Ninth Circuit now exercise jurisdiction over all the Earth, on whatever matters we decided are so important.”

http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202520194250

Now, it is established that none of the parties to the suit are American and none of the alleged actions occurred in an area part of or controlled by the United States.

So there is neither personal nor geographic jurisdiction.

The plaintiffs simply wanted a court of left-wing kooks to ignore settled law, and side with them.

Not surprisingly they filed in the Ninth Circuit.

Needless to say, another (rational) Circuit Court ruled otherwise in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum.