Xuncax v. Gramajo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “when foreign remedies are unobtainable, ineffective, inadequate, or obviously futile,” exhaustion pursuant to TVPA is not required
• holding that the TVPA is the most analogous statute to the ATCA
• holding that, under Guatemalan law, the deceased’s sibling had standing to assert a cause of action under ATS for the execution pf her sister, but could not recover for claims of torture
• holding that international law provides substantive law for ATCA cases
• holding that international law provides substantive law for ATCA cases
• holding that international law provides the substantive law for ATCA claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).