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WARFAA v. ALI

Nos. 14-1810, 14-1934.

811 F.3d 653 (2016)

Farhan Mohamoud Tani WARFAA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Yusuf Abdi ALI, Defendant-Appellant. Farhan Mohamoud Tani Warfaa, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Yusuf Abdi Ali, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: February 1, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Joseph Peter Drennan , Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Tara Melissa Lee , DLA Piper LLP (US), Reston, Virginia, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant. ON BRIEF: Joseph C. Davis , Reston, Virginia, Paul D. Schmitt , Mason Hubbard, DLA Piper LLP (US), Washington, D.C.; Laura Kathleen Roberts , Nushin Sarkarati , Scott A. Gilmore , Center for Justice & Accountability, San Francisco, California, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge AGEE wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge DIAZ joined. Judge GREGORY wrote a separate opinion dissenting in part.

Farhan Warfaa alleges that in 1987, a group of soldiers kidnapped him from his home in northern Somalia. Over the next several months, Warfaa claims he was beaten, tortured, shot, and ultimately left for dead at the direction of Yusuf Ali, a colonel in the Somali National Army at the time. Warfaa later sued Ali under the Alien...

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