Germany's Daimler -- which is also objecting to the South African government's turnabout on the suit -- and Barclays Bank are among those protesting the creative legal theories. Earlier here.

More: Princeton Lyman (Council on Foreign Relations), NYT op-ed. And also on the Alien Tort Statute, here's a YouTube video in which Linda Kelly, director of legal education programs for the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Law, discusses the center's efforts related to the statute.