Federal appeals court upholds dismissal of Rumsfeld torture suit

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] Tuesday upheld the dismissal [opinion, PDF] of a torture suit against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [ABC news backgrounder; JURIST news archive] brought by four Afghan and five Iraqi citizens alleging they were illegally detained and tortured. The plaintiffs sued in 2005 [JURIST report] claiming Rumsfeld and three other high-ranking military officers were directly responsible for violations of the Fifth and Eighth Amendments [text]…

September 11, 2011

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