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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, Prime Minister, Robert B. King, Robert R. Vieth, Rule 12(b)(1), Samantar v. Yousuf, SCOTUS, 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

US: SCOTUS Hears Immunity Arguments in the Torture Case against an Ex-Somali PM

By Editor | Published: March 5, 2010

2010-03-05, Washington, D.C., USA. SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Samantar v. Yousuf et al., a civil case brought by 5 plaintiffs against Mohamed Ali Samantar, a former Prime Minister of Somalia, now a resident of Virginia, United States. The case was initiated by the Center for Justice and Accountability.The defendant’s reliance on the Foreign Sovereign [...]

Posted in Domestic Courts | Also tagged Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Bashe Abid Yousuf, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, FSIA, Jones Day, Mohamed Ali Samantar, Patricia Millet, Samantar v. Yousuf, Somalia, torture, Torture Victim Protection Act, USSC | Comments closed

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