United States Eleventh Circuit

A foreigner who has been arrested and detained in this country and alleges a violation of the consular notification provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations cannot maintain an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2008
• Published 05/22/2008

Judges

• FAY, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH and FAY, Circuit Judges, and RODGERS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leon Fresco (Court-Appointed), Holland & Knight, LLP, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Sharon Swingle, Robert M. Loeb, Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Section, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, Dept. of Justice.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terry Lee Readdick, Steven G. Blackerby, Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland & Watkins, LLP, Aaron W. Mumford, Brunswick, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.