Abebe-Jira v. Negewo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the political question doctrine did not bar tort action brought by former prisoners in Ethiopia under the ATCA
• affirming award of $200,000 in compensatory damages to each of three plaintiffs for torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment
• affirming judgment under the ATCA for women imprisoned for three to ten months, during which imprisoned women were stripped and bound, whipped with wire, hung by a pole, severely beaten, and tortured to aggravate the resulting wounds
• describing Filartiga as “[t]he leading case interpreting the Alien Tort Claims Act.”
• addressing Alien Tort Claims Act claim against official of former Ethiopian government
• affirming verdict of $200,000 in compensatory damages and $300,000 in punitive damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).