Former State Department Official Has Case Against US Government Dismissed Frustrating Efforts to Force Assertion of Her Immunities in Rendition of Abu Omar

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
28
Issue: 
3
Abstract: 

On January 5, 2012, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell dismissed the lawsuit of former State Department official, Sabrina de Sousa, who sued U.S. government agencies for their failure to assert diplomatic or consular immunity on her behalf in the Italian courts and by permitting defamatory information about her to spread unchecked.[1]


                [1]               Sabrina de Sousa v. Department of State, U.S. Dist Court for D.C., C.A. No. 09-00896 (BAH).