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Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the Alien Tort Statute and the Federal Tort Claims Act.Many ATS claims were filed after the Second Circuit ruling in Filártiga v.
The first U.S. Supreme Court case to directly address the scope of the ATS was Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain in 2004. [16] The plaintiff, Alvarez, brought a claim under ATS for arbitrary arrest and detention. He had been indicted in the United States for torturing and murdering a Drug Enforcement Administration officer. When the United States was ...
After Mexican officials refused to extradite Álvarez without an advance payment of $50,000, the DEA paid local contacts a total of $50,000 to abduct Álvarez into the United States. On April 2, 1990, five to six armed men abducted Álvarez from his office in Guadalajara to a house in Guadalajara. Álvarez claims that he was injected with a ...
Case name Citation Date decided Elk Grove Unified School Dist. v. Newdow: 542 U.S. 1: 2004: Norton v. S. Utah Wilderness Alliance: 542 U.S. 55: 2004: United States v.
United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the respondent's forcible abduction from a foreign country, despite the existence of an extradition treaty with said country, does not prohibit him from being tried before a U.S. court for violations of American criminal laws.
The 2003 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 6, 2003, and concluded October 3, 2004. This was the eighteenth term of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia 's tenure on the Court.
A federal judge ordered an end to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 16-year-old lawsuit over Allen Stanford's $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme, directing the financier and two former ...
The 2003 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 6, 2003, and concluded October 3, 2004. This was the eleventh term of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's tenure on the Court.