United States Seventh Circuit

The Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act does not apply to individuals, and, therefore, plaintiff-Nigerian general is not immune from a lawsuit alleging torture and murder in Nigeria.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/10/2005
• Decided 05/23/2005
• Published 05/23/2005

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before CUDAHY, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kayode O. Oladele (argued), Whitfield & Associates, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Kevin B. Duckworth, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, Ephraim Ugwuonye (argued), Ecu Associates, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant.