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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 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 ...
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 542 of the United States Reports: ... Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain: 542 U.S. 692: 2004: Jackson v ...
United States, 541 U.S. 600: March 3, 2004: ... Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692: ... Agreement percentages are based only on the listed cases in which a justice ...
In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain that the Declaration "does not of its own force impose obligations as a matter of international law", and that the political branches of the U.S. federal government can "scrutinize" the nation's obligations to international instruments and their enforceability. [12]
The United States government pursued a lengthy investigation of Camarena's murder. Due to the difficulty of extraditing Mexican citizens, the DEA went as far as to use bounty hunters to capture Humberto Álvarez Machaín , the physician who allegedly prolonged Camarena's life so the torture could continue, and Javier Vásquez Velasco , and ...
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.