Not exact matches
To controversies between a State or the citizens thereof and foreign states, citizens or
subjects, because, as every nation is responsible for the conduct of its citizens towards other nations, all questions touching the
justice due to foreign nations or people ought to be ascertained by, and depend on, national authority.
Signatory States to the Convention may not violate the right to life of their citizens,
subject them to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, press them into enforced labour, deprive them of their liberty without
due process and compensation, deprive them of access to
justice or a fair trial or introduce laws that impose retrospective criminal liability for acts that were innocent at the time they were committed.
In a commonsense dissent, retiring
Justice Kathryn Werdegar warned that the majority's «decision impairs important functions of reciprocity, predictability, and limited state sovereignty» by threatening «to
subject companies to the jurisdiction of California courts... beyond our state's legitimate regulatory interest» and «inconsistent with the limits set by
due process.»