Legal Opinion
Enahoro, Anthony v. Abubakar, Abdulsalam
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 23, 2005No. 03-3089PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
A courtroom in Chicago, one would think, is an unlikely place for considering a case involving seven Nigerian citizens suing an eighth Nigerian for acts committed in Nigeria. It sounds like the sort of fare that would be heard in a courtroom on the African continent. But this case ended up in Chicago, and that leads us to consider the claims of seven Nigerian citizens against a Nigerian general over alleged *879torture and murder in Nigeria. The' path the plaintiffs are pursuing is, as we shall see, quite thorny.
The plaintiffs make allegations of torture and…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Enahoro v. AbubakarCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2005