Legal Opinion
Venancio Aguasanta Arias v. Dyncorp
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 30, 2014No. 13-7044, 13-7045PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:
Appellants, a group of Ecuadorian provinces and individual farmers, alleged that they were injured by an anti-drug herbicide spraying operation in Colombia, conducted by an American company. In a series of rulings, the district judge dismissed all claims. Some of those are appealed. We affirm all but one.
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Since the late 1990s, the United States and Colombia have cooperated in a program known as “Plan Colombia,” which encompasses a range of policies designed to combat Colombian drug cartels. That…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Jones v. HorneCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2011
- Homan v. GoyalDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1998
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3Cited by18 opinions
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