The Second Circuit held that the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2013 decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum bars the Alien Tort Statute claims against Ford, Daimler, and IBM for allegedly aiding and abetting the apartheid regime in South Africa.  The plaintiffs had claimed that defendants "sold cars and computers to the South African government, thus making the defendants, their parent companies, liable for the apartheid regime's innumerable race-based depredations and injustices, including rape, torture, and extrajudicial killings."  Reasoning that "the Kiobel decision, combined with the opportunity to move for dismissal in the District Court, provides an adequate ground for dismissing all remaining claims," the Court denied defendants' petition for a writ of mandamus and vacated the stay it had placed on proceedings in the District Court.