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ARCE v. GARCIA

No. 02-14427.

400 F.3d 1340 (2005)

Juan Romagoza ARCE, Neris Gonzalez, and Carlos Mauricio, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jose Guillermo GARCIA, an individual, and Carlos Eugenio Vides-Casanova, an individual, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 28, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Stern, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, Walnut Creek, CA, Kurt R. Klaus, Jr., Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.

James K. Green, James K. Green, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, Joshua N. Sondheimer, The Center for Justice & Accountability, San Francisco, CA, Carolyn P. Bhun, UC School of Law-Boalt Hall, New York City, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and CONWAY, District Judge.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

I.

The three plaintiffs in this case are Salvadoran refugees who claim that they were tortured by soldiers in El Salvador during the course of a campaign of human-rights violations by the Salvadoran military from 1979 to 1983.

The first plaintiff, Juan Romagoza Arce, claims that he was kidnaped by government soldiers on or about December 12, 1980 and that he was tortured until January...

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