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13. Violations of the Rights of Aliens, ICCPR Coalition Report PROBLEMS WITH U.S. COMPLIANCE WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHTS OF ALIENS A report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Second and Third Periodic Report of the United States of …
Rumsfeld, Military Officials Immune from Suit by Foreign Nationals Alleging Torture on Foreign Soil by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On June 21, 2011, a divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of a district court that dismissed claims for damages and declaratory relief brought by nine foreign …
Second Circuit Holds Vienna Convention Does Not Confer Individual Rights On Foreign Nationals by On April 24, 2008, the Second Circuit affirmed a New York district court's decision to dismiss a $1 million complaint filed by a Dominican foreign national, Ricardo A. De Los Santos Mora. The complaint stems from …
US appellate court rejects British victims' suit for Guantánamo torture damages by By John Burton On January 11, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a case brought by four British citizens seeking money damages to compensate them for having been tortured by the …
“State Secrets Privilege” Forecloses CIA-Detainee’s Kidnapping and Torture Suit by John Dannenberg "State Secrets Privilege" Forecloses CIA-Detainee?s Kidnapping and Torture Suit by John E. Dannenberg The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld a district court's dismissal of a civil rights action filed by a foreign national who was …
9-11 Detainees' Suit Survives Government's Motion to Dismiss by Matthew Clarke By Matthew T.Clarke On. September 27, 2005, a federal district court in New York issued a 70-page, unpublished memorandum and order granting in part and denying in part the defendants' motion to dismiss civil rights conditions-of confinement claims brought …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vienna Convention Creates Individually Enforceable Rights by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In a ground-breaking decision the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Vienna Convention) created individual rights to consular notification that may be enforced in a civil action. Thus, …