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ALVAREZ-MACHAIN v. U.S.

Nos. 95-55464, 95-55768 and 95-56121.

107 F.3d 696 (1996)

Humberto ALVAREZ-MACHAIN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America; Antonio Garate-Bustamante; Francisco Sosa, Defendants, and Hector Berellez; Bill Waters; Pete Gruden; Jack Lawn, Defendants-Appellants. Humberto ALVAREZ-MACHAIN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendant-Appellant. Humberto ALVAREZ-MACHAIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, and Francisco Sosa; Antonio Garate-Bustamante, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1996.

Amended February 19, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Hoffman, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, for Alvarez-Machain.

Robert M. Loeb, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for United States of America.

Michael L. Martinez, Holland & Knight, Washington, DC, for Berellez, Waters, Gruden & Lawn.

Gary S. Lincenberg and Thomas V. Reichert, Bird, Marella, Boxer Wolpert & Matz, Los Angeles, California, for Antonio Garate-Bustamante; Charles S. Leeper and Karl N. Metzner, Spriggs & Hollingsworth, Washington, DC, for Francisco Sosa.

Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, for amicus Human Rights Watch; Harold Hongju Koh, Allard K. Lowenstein, International Human Rights Clinic, New Haven, Connecticut, for amicus Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, et al.

Before: GOODWIN and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

In April 1990 the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) orchestrated the abduction and torture of Dr. Alvarez-Machain, a Mexican doctor, and transported him to the United States for prosecution for the murder of a DEA agent in Mexico. The criminal case ended when the district court granted a judgment of acquittal.

Alvarez-Machain returned to Mexico and filed this civil action against the United States and its agents under 42 U...

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