Legal Opinion
Chavez v. Carranza
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 17, 2009No. 06-6234PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SILER, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Nicolas Carranza appeals a jury verdict awarding compensatory and punitive damages to victims of torture, extrajudicial killing, and crimes against humanity in violation of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), also called the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and the Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Carranza argues that the district court abused its discretion by (1) holding that extraordinary circumstances justified equitable tolling of the statute of limitations, (2) not granting comity to the Salvadoran Amnesty Law, and (3) making various evidentiary…
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