Commentary
The strength of the U.S. civil legal system rests on a simple principle: Those who break the law on U.S. soil answer to U.S. plaintiffs in U.S. courts. Our constitutional order depends on juries empowered to weigh evidence, judges and plaintiffs entrusted to enforce verdicts, and a system insulated from foreign interference. However, that foundation is now being tested by an activist organization determined to escape domestic accountability for domestic acts by turning abroad and using a foreign country’s laws and courts to take another bite at the legal apple, so to speak.