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MAMANI v. BERZAIN

No. 14-15128.

825 F.3d 1304 (2016)

Eloy Royas MAMANI, Etelvina Ramos Mamani, Sonia Espejo Villalobos, Hernan Apaza Cutipa, Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jose Carlos Sanchez BERZAIN, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 16, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven H. Schulman , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, Jeremy Bollinger , Mariya Hutson , Jonathan P. Slowik , Michael C. Small , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, David Rudovsky , Kairys Rudovsky Messing & Feinberg, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Judith Brown Chomsky , Elkins Park, PA, Susan Hannah Farbstein , Tyler R. Giannini , Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Jennifer M. Green , Beth Stephens , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, Paul Hoffman , Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison, LLP, Venice, CA, Ira J. Kurzban , Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli & Pratt, PA, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Kannon K. Shanmugam , Kevin M. Downey , Greg S. Hillson , Ana Cecilia Reyes , Kristin Ann Shapiro , Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC, Alan M. Dershowitz , Jack Landman Goldsmith, III , Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Glenn Evan Goldstein , Eliot Pedrosa , Greenberg Traurig, PA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Mark Paul Schnapp , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT and SENTELLE, Circuit Judges.

The plaintiffs who brought this Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) lawsuit are heirs to eight civilians killed in 2003 by Bolivian troops acting under the direction of the President and Minister of Defense at the time. The TVPA bars courts from hearing claims brought under it "if the claimant has not exhausted adequate...

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