Legal Opinion
Bancoult v. McNamara
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 21, 2004No. Civil Action 01-2629 (RMU)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
URBINA, District Judge.
Granting the Individual Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss; Granting the Defendant United States’ Motion to Dismiss; and Denying the Plaintiff’s SECOND Motion for a Preliminary Injunction
I. INTRODUCTION
In the middle of the Indian Ocean and at the heart of this action lies the Chagos Archipelago (“Chagos”), a grouping of 52 islands administered by the British government and leased to the United States under the British Indian Ocean Territory Agreement (“BIOT Agreement”). During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Chagos population was forcibly removed to…
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