Genocide claims dismissed in Texas

DALLAS — A federal court in Texas dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Côte d’Ivoire citizen against the nation’s president of Côte d’Ivoire and his wife, who allegedly oversaw major human rights violations including genocide during the country’s 2010-2011 civil war. The citizen’s claims under the Alien Tort Statute fail because that law doesn't apply extraterritorially, and all of the harms the citizen asserts occurred in Côte d’Ivoire.