The article offers information on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) which allows foreign citizens to seek remedies in the U.S. courts for human-rights violations for conduct committed outside the U.S. in context with Doe VIII v. Exxon Mobil Corp. court case. It mentions about the court case in which Indonesian villagers filed suit against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the U.S. federal court alleging genocide, extrajudicial killing and sexual violence in 2001.