The ATCA (Alien Tort Claims Act), also is known as the Alien Tort Statute, U.S. law, is originated from a provision of the Judiciary Act of 1789. The ATCA grants to U.S. federal courts original jurisdiction over any civil action brought by someone not from the country they live in (a foreign national) for a tort (wrongful act) in violation of international law or a U.S. treaty (Windsor, 2015). Due to this manner the ATCA allows you to sue for civil manners from a breach contract, international law, or again a U.S. treaty (Windsor, 2015). Starting in the 1980s, the ATCA was used as the basis of suits against individuals for violations of international human rights law, such as the apartheid in South Africa; from the mid-1990s it was also used
