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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 …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Monitoring Police Custody - A Practical Guide, APT, 2013 Monitoring Police custody Ferspera quatus quosti optur audisint maximus ea ea sae sim con non paris evel modi coreptaque pos mi, sit la velessus et aciendant aborias eserisc iumendignis quas elest, utatem dolo comniet aut aut eum qui as maio to …
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 …
State Secrets Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Suit Involving CIA Torture Flights by On September 8, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held the “valid assertion of the state secrets privilege” warranted dismissal of a lawsuit filed by suspects apprehended as part of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. The suit …
Military Contractors Granted Summary Judgment by On September 11, 2009, Iraqi citizens, Haidar Muhsin Saleh and Ilam Nassir Ibrahim, lost their appeal to the District of Columbia Circuit in regard to lawsuits filed against two private military contractors. The two men represented a group of plaintiffs who alleged they or …
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 …
Abu Ghraib Torture Suit Proceeds to Trial by A federal court in Washingotn, D.C. refused an American corporation that contracts with the U.S. government immunity for alleged torture and abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. Titan Corporation contracts with the U.S. Army to provide civilian linguists for military operations. By …
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 September 27, 2005, a federal district court in New York issued a 70-page, unpublished memorandum and order granting in part and denying in part the defendants' motion to dismiss civil rights conditions-of confinement claims brought …
No Remedy for Mexican Doctor Kidnapped, Tortured by DEA by The plaintiff, a Mexican physician, was believed by Drug Enforcement Administration officials to have assisted in the interrogation and torture of a DEA agent in Mexico, and was indicted in California. The DEA hired Mexican nationals to seize him and …