Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos Human Rights Litigation. Agapita Trajano Archimedes Trajano v. Ferdinand E. Marcos, and Imee Marcos-Manotoc
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 21, 1992No. 91-15891PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
After former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his daughter, Imee Marcos-Manotoc, fled to Hawaii in 1986, they were sued in federal court by Agapita Trajano, a citizen of the Philippines who. then lived in Hawaii, for the torture and wrongful death of Trajano’s son, Archimedes, in the Philippines on August 31, 1977. 1 Marcos-Manotoc did not appear and a default judgment was entered against her. On appeal, she contends that the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, and that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities…
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