Offenses Clause

Constitutionality of TVPA Challenged in First Circuit

As previously reported at TLB, a Massachusetts jury last year awarded $15.5 million in damages against Jean Morose Viliena for torture and extrajudicial killing under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA). Viliena was mayor of a town in Haiti where the three plaintiffs lived. The jury found him responsible for murdering the brother of one…

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Vanderbilt Law School
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George Washington University Law School
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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University of Chicago Law School
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Fordham University School of Law
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Fordham Law School
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Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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University of Virginia School of Law
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Duke University School of Law
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University of Cambridge
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