Doe v. Liu Qi

How courts have described this case

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• stating that where the conduct alleged in is sufficiently egregious, a CIDT claim is actionable
• finding that a superior subordinate relationship was established where one defendant had supervisory authority over perpetrators, and another defendant “played a major policy-making and supervisory role in the policies and practices that were carried out”
• noting that, in an ATS suit against Chinese local-government officials, China, “through the United States Department of State, submitted a letter to this Court urging this Court not to assert juris- diction over the instant cases”
• finding plaintiff subjected to mental torture under TVPA where forced to “witness the guards’ severe mistreatment of a close friend”
• holding service sufficient when 21 process server confronted defendant at the screening area of an airport, informed him that he had legal documents, attempted to hand them to the defendant’s entourage, and stated that “you have 22 been formally served”
• Finding a superior- subordinate relationship where defendant “played a major policy-making and supervisory role in the policies and practices that were carried out”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).