see filartiga." and then it quotes filartiga, "for purposes of civil liability, the torturer has become like the pirate and slave trader before him, an enemy of all mankind." so we gave a stamp of approval to filartiga and filartiga's understanding that there were certain categories of offenders who were today's pirates. >> if -- the fact that the nations of the world agree on norms does not mean the nations of the world agree on remedies. and what the ats and federal common law, as interpreted in sosa, do is project a u.s. civil cause of action with u.s. rules, punitive damages, no attorney fee shifting, contingent fee and punitive damages. that should not be done except by congress. should not permit it to be done here. thank you. >> thank you, ms. sullivan. general verrilli. >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, the alien tort statute should not afford a cause of action to address the extraterritorial conduct of a foreign corporation when the allegation is that the defendant aided and

there are many differences between us and filartiga. this is a case in which there is a class action against a corporation. if he did not agree with us and the lack of extraterritorial application, we still maintain that the ats does not apply to corporations. second, there is an allegation here of aiding and abetting a foreign government. it was unclear whether the paraguayan was acting within or without the state's authority, but he was later deported, so we do not know t answer. here the offense is magnified because the allegation is that in english and a dutch company aided and abetted the nigerian government. that is where the offense to the principle against international friction -- international friction is at its highest. if you want to adopt our position in full, at a minimum we think he should hold that the prisons and applies to foreign keep cases involving aiding and abetting a foreign government. but we do not think he should do that. we respectfully submit the better approach is to apply the presumption as a categorial ma