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State Secrets Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Suit Involving CIA Torture Flights

Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011

Filed under: Government Misconduct, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Disclosure of Records, Discovery, Wrongful Imprisonment, Prisoners-International, Terrorism, Alien Tort Statute (International), Military Prisons

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 …

Japanese Man Awarded $500,000 For Being Held In Bahamas Prison For 8 Years Without A Court Hearing

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment, Prisoners-International

Japanese Man Awarded $500,000 For Being Held In Bahamas Prison For 8 Years Without A Court Hearing by Japanese Man Awarded $500,000 For Being Held In Bahamas Prison For 8 Years Without A Court Hearing In August 1992, Atain Takitota traveled from his home in Osaka, Japan to Paradise Island, …