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IN RE ESTATE OF FERDINAND E. MARCOS HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION

No. 91-15891.

978 F.2d 493 (1992)

In re ESTATE OF FERDINAND E. MARCOS HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION. Agapita TRAJANO; Archimedes Trajano, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ferdinand E. MARCOS, Defendant, and Imee Marcos-Manotoc, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. Rothbaum, Jr., Linn & Helms, Oklahoma City, Okl. (argued the case), Donald C. Smaltz, Smaltz & Anderson, Los Angeles, Cal. (signed the briefs), for defendant-appellant.

Jon M. Van Dyke, Sherry P. Broder and Lillian Ramirez-Uy, Graulty, Ikeda & Ramirez-Uy, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Ellen Lutz, Los Angeles, Cal., for amicus curiae Human Rights Watch.

Harold Hongju Koh, New Haven, Conn., Michael Ratner, New York City, for amici curiae Allard K. Lowenstein Intern. Human Rights Clinic and the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Before BROWNING, PREGERSON and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

After former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his daughter, Imee Marcos-Manotoc, fled to Hawaii in 1986, they were sued in federal court by Agapita Trajano, a citizen of the Philippines who then lived in Hawaii, for the torture and wrongful death of Trajano's son, Archimedes, in the Philippines on August 31, 1977.1 Marcos-Manotoc did not appear and a default judgment was entered against her. On appeal, she...

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