U.S. Supreme Court Grants Certiorari on Alvarez-Machain Claims

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Monday, March 1, 2004
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
20
Issue: 
3
100
Abstract: 
On December 1, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition for writ of certiorari in the Alien Tort Claims Act involving the 1990 abduction of a Mexican doctor who was under indictment by a federal grand jury in the torture and murder of a federal narcotics agent in Guadalajara, Mexico to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.