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MAMANI v. BERZAIN

Nos. 09-16246, 10-13071.

654 F.3d 1148 (2011)

Eloy Rojas MAMANI, Etelvina Romas Mamani, Sonia Espejo Villalobos, Hernan Apaza Cutipa, Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jose Carlos Sanchez BERZAIN, Defendant-Appellant. Eloy Royas Mamani, Warisata, Bolivia, Etelvina Ramos Mamani, Warisata, Bolivia, Sonia Espejo Villalobos, El Alto, Bolivia, Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani, El Alto, Bolivia, Teofilo Baltazar Cerro, El Alto, Bolivia, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gonzalo Daniel Sanchez de Lozada Sanchez Bustamante, Defendant-Appellant. Eloy Royas Mamani, Warisata, Bolivia, Etelvina Ramos Mamani, Warisata, Bolivia, Sonia Espejo Villalobos, El Alto, Bolivia, Hernan Apaza Cutipa, Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani, El Alto, Bolivia, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Sanchez Bustamante, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 29, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kannon Kumar Shanmugam , Ana Cecilia Reyes , Kevin M. Downey , Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC, Jack Landman Goldsmith, III , Alan M. Dershowitz , Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Eliot Pedrosa , Andres Nicholas Rubinoff , Mark Paul Schnapp , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Michael C. Small , Jeremy Bollinger , Tobias Eli Zimmerman , Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Tyler Richard Giannini , Susan Hannah Farbstein , Intern. Human Rights Clinic, James L. Cavallaro , Harvard Law School, Intern. Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, Cambridge, MA, Judith B. Chomsky , Elkins Park, PA, Jennifer M. Green , Ctr. for Const. Rights, New York City, Paul L. Hoffman , Schonbrun, De Simone , Seplow, Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice, CA, Ira J. Kurzban , Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, Tetzeli & Pratt, PA, Miami, FL, David Rudovsky , Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Steven H. Schulman , Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, Beth Stephens , Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before EDMONDSON and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and FAWSETT, District Judge.

EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs are the relatives of persons killed in Bolivia in 2003. All are citizens and residents of Bolivia. Plaintiffs bring suit under the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS") against two of the former highest-level leaders of Bolivia — the former president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Daniel Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante ("President"), and the former defense minister of Bolivia, José Carlos Sánchez Berzaín ("Defense...

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