Fifth Circuit Decision Affirmed Dismissal of Claim of Abuses Due to Extraordinary Rendition from U.S. to Syria as Conduct Without a Remedy

On November 2, 2009, the Circuit Court of Appeals issued an en banc decision that affirmed the District Court dismissal of claims arising out of extraordinary rendition. Maher Arar filed the action for tort recovery of damages against individual members of the U.S. government allegedly involved with stopping Arar at a New York airport in 2002, his subsequent transport to Syria and interrogation under torture until 2003...(more)