{"id":405082,"date":"2010-03-08T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:law.nd.edu,2005:News\/14904"},"modified":"2010-03-08T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:27:17","slug":"prof-cassel-says-ex-somali-official-not-immune-to-torture-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405082","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Cassel says ex-Somali official not immune to torture lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/assets\/1266\/cassel.jpg\" title=\"faculty_cassel\" alt=\"faculty_cassel\" \/> Notre Dame Professor of Law Douglass Cassel\u2019s amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Samantar v. Yousuf argues that a former Somali leader living in Virginia is not immune to civil lawsuits alleging torture under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (<span class=\"caps\">FSIA<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">ABC<\/span> News quoted Cassel\u2019s brief extensively. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCassel points out that there is currently a law &#8212; the Torture Victim Protection Act &#8212; that authorizes victims of torture to sue perpetrators in U.S. courts for money damages. If <span class=\"caps\">FSIA<\/span> immunized such individuals, Cassel argues, \u2018then the 1991 Torture Victim Protection Act would be meaningless.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his brief, Cassel wrote, \u2018Because of our national interest in holding human rights violators accountable, immunizing all foreign officials sued for torture and extrajudicial execution is particularly unwise.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/supreme-court-decide-somalian-official-living-us-sued\/story?id=10000671&amp;page=1\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/supreme-court-decide-somalian-official-living-us-sued\/story?id=10000671&amp;page=1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/lawschool\/news\/~4\/L-E0kdJQxp0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame Professor of Law Douglass Cassel\u2019s amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Samantar v. Yousuf argues that a former Somali leader living in Virginia is not immune to civil lawsuits alleging torture under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). ABC News quoted Cassel\u2019s brief extensively. Here is an excerpt: \u201cCassel points out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}