Mining giant Rio Tinto Plc tried to persuade an appeals court to dismiss a long running human rights lawsuit, one of a number of cases to test the reach of U.S. judges over corporations operating on foreign soil.The lawsuit, a proposed class action, involves Rio Tinto’s operations on the island of Bougainville in the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, where it once ran one of the world’s largest mines for copper and gold.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10396.