United States Ninth Circuit

Because the nature of the violations suffered by those the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) was designed to protect will tend to preclude filings in the US courts within a short time, the adoption of the California statute of limitations is rejected in favor of the 10-year statute of limitations provided by the Torture Victim Protection Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2001
• Decided 02/25/2002
• Published 02/25/2002

Judges

• Before LEAVY, T.G. NELSON, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun, De Simone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman LLP, Venice, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie Zatz and Christopher Brunwin, Assistant United States Attorneys, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellees.