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Alvarez-Machain v. U.S., No. 95-55464 (9th Cir.) (96 F.3d 1246) (September 24, 1996) (Judge Alfred T. Goodwin)

This is an important case which limited defense of qualified immunity to agents of the DEA for brutality arising out of abduction and torture of Mexican national. Effectively the case tolled the two year limitations period for filing claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act where the plaintiff, a foreign ...

 

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