United States Ninth Circuit

In an action alleging that Defendant participated in Plaintiff foreign nationals' abduction in aid of U.S. intelligence gathering, the dismissal of the complaint is reversed, where the state secrets doctrine did not require dismissal because Plaintiffs' claims were not all predicated on an alleged secret agreement between Defendant and the U.S.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/09/2009
• Decided 04/28/2009
• Published 04/28/2009

Judges

• Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR. and MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ben Wizner, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for Amici Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation., William J. Aceves, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, for Amici Redress and The International Commission of Jurists., Natalie L. Bridgeman, Law Offices of Natalie L. Bridgeman, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Professors of Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, and Foreign Relations Law., Jean-Paul Jassy, Bostwick & Jassy, Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Professors William G. Weaver and Robert M. Pallitto., James M. Ringer, Clifford Change US, New York, NY, for Amici Commonwealth Lawyers Association and Justice., David J. Stankiewicz, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, New York, NY, for Amicus Former United States Diplomats.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel P. Collins, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellee., Douglas N. Letter and Michael P. Abate, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor-Appellee., Andrew G. McBride, Wiley Rein, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Support of Appellees Supporting Affirmance.