Mehinovic v. Vuckovic

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that under international law, compensation for a broad range of physical, emotional and social harms should be commensurate to the injury
• awarding $10 million in compensatory damages per plaintiff for, inter alia, torture, cruel and inhumane treatment, arbitrary detention, violations of the law of war, and crimes against humanity
• “Crimes against humanity have been recognized as a violation of customary international law .since the Nuremberg trials and therefore are actionable under the ATCA.”
• cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment defined as including “acts which inflict mental or physical suffering, anguish, humiliation, fear and debasement, which do not rise to the level of ‘torture’ or do not have the same purposes as ‘torture.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).