SF: U.S. Appeals Court Agrees To Rehear Rendition Lawsuit Against San Jose Aviation Firm

[maddezmom]

Source: CBS

SF: U.S. APPEALS COURT AGREES TO REHEAR RENDITION LAWSUIT AGAINST SAN JOSE AVIATION FIRM

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)

A federal appeals court in San Francisco agreed today to reconsider a ruling that allowed five men who claim they were tortured in overseas prisons to sue a San Jose aviation company.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by the Obama Administration for a rehearing on the government's claim that the lawsuit against Jeppesen DataPlan Inc. should be dismissed.

Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing Co., is an aviation services company.

The five men, all foreign citizens, claim the company violated international human rights law by aiding the CIA in plane flights that took them in 2001, 2002 and 2003 to overseas sites where they were allegedly tortured while being interrogated.

The alleged CIA program to transport terrorism suspects to other countries for interrogation is known as extraordinary rendition. The lawsuit claims Jeppesen provided flight plans and other aviation support.



Read more: http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=RENDITION-CASE-RECONSIDERED--16-43

[dipsydoodle]

1. Strange subject for someone to unrec.

:shrug:

[Piewhacket]

2. yea... ain't it odd? rec.

quite a few POV violations getting through elsewhere on DU too,
deliberately provocative stuff to tweek progressives, you know,
like you'd see on the ...er... "other" sites.
odd, ain't it? :shrug:

skinner doesn't want mods to decide such things, he wants us to vote
to rec or unrec material. of course, that tactic can cuts both ways, eh?

This post, otoh, IS a progressive issue - rule of law, accountability for
civil rights violations, accountability for war crimes.

Here the court of appeals may overturn the lower court, which
would not be a good turn in the bumpy road to accountability
for war crimes.

the normal rule is that a person who aids the government in
violating the civil rights of any person, such as by aiding in
their illegal rendition and torture, may be legally liable to the
same extent as the government.

unless, of course, the defendants are so well connected that
they can get congress and Obama to pass special immunity for them,
like Bush and a democratic congress did in the case of the (Texas)
telecom SBC (ATT). Obama voted for it, btw.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

Fuck that shit