By Editor | Published: June 15, 2010
2010-06-01, Washington D.C., U.S.A. The USSC rendered its judgment in Samantar v. Yousuf - a case filed by the CJA on behalf of victims of violations of human rights against a former Somali Minister of Defense and Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Samantar. The claim was brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 and the Alien Tort Statute. [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts | Also tagged agency or instrumentality, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Alexandria, Alien Tort Statute, Allyson K. Duncan, Amy Howe, Andrea C. Evans, ATS, Bashe Abid Yousuf, Beth Stephens, Center for Justice and Accountability, CJA, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, corporate entity, David J. Strandness, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, FSIA, head-of-state immunity, Howe & Russell, human rights, immunity, individual officials, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Jones Day, Jr., judgment, Julian H. Spirer and Fred B. Goldberg, Kevin K. Russell, Kyle C. Wong, L. Kathleen Roberts, lack of subject matter jurisdiction, Lauren Kerwin, Leonie M. Brinkema, Lori R. E. Ploeger, Mark J. MacDougall, Maureen P. Alger, Michael A. Carvin, Minister of Defense, Mohamed Ali Samantar, Natasha E. Fain, official capacity, Pamela M. Merchant, Pamela S. Karlan, Patricia A. Millett, Patricia Millet, Paul V. Lettow, political body, Prime Minister, Robert B. King, Robert R. Vieth, Rule 12(b)(1), Samantar v. Yousuf, SCOTUS, Shay Dvoretzky, Somalia, Spirer & Goldberg, Standlord Law School, state sovereign immunity, Steven Schulman, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Thomas C. Goldstein, torture, Torture Victim Protection Act, Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, TVPA, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, United States Supreme Court, USSC, William B. Traxler
By Editor | Published: June 14, 2010
2010-06-11, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Abdi Aden Magan, former Chief of the Somali Security Service filed a response to the complaint that alleged that he is responsible for torture. According to the news reports, it appears that the defendant pleaded the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act on the basis that he acted in official capacity, limitations [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts | Also tagged Abdi Aden Magan, Abukar Hassan Ahmed, Alien Tort Statute, arbitrary detention, ATS, Center for Justice and Accountability, Chief, CJA, Columbus, command responsibility, complaint, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, Department of Investigations, Kenya, Kristine L. Sendek-Smith, limitations act, Mark J. MacDougall, NSS, official capacity, Ohio, personal responsibility, preferred jurisdiction, Siad Barre, Somali National Security Service, Somali National University, Somaliland, Tiffany Smithm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, torture, Torture Victim Protection Act, TVPA, U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of Ohio, United States
USA: Samantar v. Yousuf: USSC Votes for Accountability