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CHOWDHURY v. WORLDTEL BANGLADESH HOLDING, LTD.

No. 09-4483-cv.

746 F.3d 42 (2014)

Nayeem Mehtab CHOWDHURY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WORLDTEL BANGLADESH HOLDING, LTD., Amjad Hossain Khan, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 10, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Eric Charlton ( Angela C. Winfield , on the brief), Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, Syracuse, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.

Evan Sarzin ( Karen E. Goldman , on the brief), Law Offices of Evan Sarzin, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: CABRANES, POOLER and CHIN, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

Defendants in this action, an individual corporate officer and an affiliated company, appeal from a judgment entered against them by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brian M. Cogan, Judge) following a trial and jury verdict. Defendants were found liable for torture under the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, and the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 ("TVPA"), 106...

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