Cabiri v. Assasie-Gyimah

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• finding Ghana an inadequate forum where plaintiff’s claim was that officials of Ghana had jailed and tortured him
• rejecting an FNC motion because “plaintiff is highly unlikely to obtain justice in the Ghanaian courts, and [] to force plaintiff to bring this action in Ghana would unnecessarily put him in harm’s way, or, also unacceptable, would mean an end to the action altogether.”
• defendant “[did] not claim that the acts of torture he is alleged to have committed fall within the scope of his authority”
• “[The defendant] does not argue that such acts are not prohibited by the laws of Ghana; nor could he. . . . [N]o government asserts a right to torture its citizens . . . .”
• “McDonnell stands for the proposition that where there is a close relationship between the two actions, and both involve vindication of the same cluster of rights and interests, then immunity from service of process should be withheld”
• “It is well established that witnesses, parties and attorneys coming from another jurisdiction are exempt from service of civil process while in attendance upon court, and during a reasonable time in coming and going.” (citing Stewart v. Ramsay, 242 U.S. 128, 129 (1916

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).