ROJAS MAMANI v. SANCHEZ BERZAIN

Nos. 07-22459-CIV-JORDAN, 08-21063-CIV-JORDAN.

636 F.Supp.2d 1326 (2009)

Eloy ROJAS MAMANI, et al., Plaintiffs v. Jose Carlos SANCHEZ BERZAIN, and Gonzalo Daniel Sanchez de Lozada Sanchez Bustamante, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida, Miami Division.

June 19, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira Jay Kurzban, Kurzban Kurzban Weinger & Tetzeli, Miami, FL, Jennifer M. Green, Beth Stephens, New York, NY, Paul L. Hoffman, Schonburn Desimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP, Venice, CA, David Rudovsky, Kairys Rudovsky Messing & Feinberg LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Jeremy F. Bollinger, Michael C. Small, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles, CA, Steven H. Schulman, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC, Tyler Richard Giannini, International Human Rights, Clinic of Human Rights Program, Cambridge, MA, for Plaintiffs.

Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain, pro se.

Andres Nicholas Rubinoff, Eliot Pedrosa, Mark Paul Schnapp, Greenberg Traurig, Miami, FL, Alan M. Dershowitz, Jack Landman Goldsmith, III, Cambridge, MA, Ana C. Reyes, Howard W. Gutman, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, for Defendants.


ORDER DISMISSING TVPA CLAIMS WITHOUT PREJUDICE

ADALBERTO JORDAN, District Judge.

In this case, the plaintiffs—all citizens of Bolivia—seek compensatory and punitive damages from Gonzalo Daniel Sanchez de Lozada Sanchez Bustamante, the former President of Bolivia, and Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain, the former Minister of Defense of Bolivia. The plaintiffs allege that Mr. Lozada and Mr. Berzain, in September and October of 2003, directed the Bolivian...

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