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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.
Sosa [clarification needed], Gárate [clarification needed], five unnamed Mexican nationals, the United States and four DEA agents were listed as defendants. [7] The district court ruled in favor of Álvarez in the amount of $25,000, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed Sosa's liability on appeal.
The Supreme Court held in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain that the ATS provides a cause of action for violations of international norms that are as "specific, universal, and obligatory" as were the norms prohibiting violations of safe conducts, infringements of the rights of ambassadors, and piracy in the 18th century. [22]
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 ex-wife of a Los Angeles doctor has been arrested over his alleged "ambush-style" murder, alongside four other suspects. On Thursday, Dec. 12, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) shared ...
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 542 of the United ... Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain: 542 U.S. 692: 2004: Jackson v. Birmingham Bd ...
On Dec. 6, the family received a phone call from immigration authorities and they were told to report to an office in Greenspoint, Texas, four days later to discuss Salazar-Hinojosa's case ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A large number of Americans' metadata has been stolen in the sweeping cyberespionage campaign carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed "Salt Typhoon," a senior U.S ...