Dolly M. E. FILARTIGA and Joel Filartiga, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Americo Norberto PENA-IRALA, Defendant-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 16, 1979.
Decided June 30, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Peter Weiss, New York City (Rhonda Copelon, John Corwin and Jose Antonio Lugo, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, and Michael Maggio, Goren & Maggio, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.
Murry D. Brochin, Newark, N. J. (Lowenstein, Sandler, Brochin, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan, P. C., Newark, N. J., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.
Irving Gornstein, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., John E. Huerta, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Roberts B. Owen, Legal Advisor, William T. Lake, Deputy Legal Advisor, Stefan A. Riesenfeld, Charles Runyon and Linda A. Baumann, Attys., Dept. of State, Washington, D. C.), for the U.S. as amicus curiae.
Donald L. Doernberg, New York City, and David S. Weissbrodt, Minneapolis, Minn., for Amnesty International-U.S. A., Intern. League for Human Rights, and the Lawyers' Committee for Intern. Human Rights as amici curiae.
Allan Abbot Tuttle, and Steven M. Schneebaum, Washington, D. C., for The Intern. Human Rights Law Group, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs and the Washington Office on Latin America as amici curiae.
Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, KAUFMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
Upon ratification of the Constitution, the thirteen former colonies were fused into a single nation, one which, in its relations with foreign states, is bound both to observe and construe the accepted norms of international law, formerly known as the law of nations. Under the Articles of Confederation, the several states had interpreted and applied this body of doctrine as a part of their...
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