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SAMANTAR v. YOUSUF

No. 08-1555.

130 S.Ct. 2278 (2010)

560 U.S. 305

Mohamed Ali SAMANTAR, Petitioner, v. Bashe Abdi YOUSUF et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shay Dvoretzky, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Patricia A. Millett, Washington, DC, for respondents.

Edwin S. Kneedler, for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the respondents.

Julian H. Spirer, Fred B. Goldberg, Spirer & Goldberg, P.C., Bethesda, MD, Michael A. Carvin (Counsel of Record), Shay Dvoretzky, David J. Strandness, Paul V. Lettow, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Pamela S. Karlan, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stanford Law School, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, CA, Beth Stephens, Pamela M. Merchant, Andrea C. Evans, Natasha E. Fain, L. Kathleen Roberts, San Francisco, CA, Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Howe & Russell, P.C., Bethesda, MD, Patricia A. Millett, Counsel of Record, Mark J. MacDougall, Thomas C. Goldstein, Steven Schulman, Lauren Kerwin, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC, Robert R. Vieth, Lori R. E. Ploeger, Maureen P. Alger, Kyle C. Wong, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Reston, VA, for Respondents.

Justice STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

From 1980 to 1986 petitioner Mohamed Ali Samantar was the First Vice President and Minister of Defense of Somalia, and from 1987 to 1990 he served as its Prime Minister. Respondents are natives of Somalia who allege that they, or members of their families, were the victims of torture and extrajudicial killings during those years. They seek damages from petitioner based on his alleged authorization of those acts....

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