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USA: Samantar v. Yousuf: USSC Votes for Accountability

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, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 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, 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 | Comments closed

SLT: Indictments to Be Ready in Fall 2010

By Editor | Published: May 18, 2010

2010-05-17, The Hague, The Netherlands. Antonio Cassese, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, stated that Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare should be ready to issue indictments in respect of the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others in September-December, 2010. Neither the President nor the Prosecutor, however, disclosed the names of the [...]

Posted in STL | Also tagged accused, Antonio Cassese, Beirut, Daniel Bellemare, indictment, President, prosecutor, Rafiq Hariri, suspects | Comments closed

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