Legal Opinion
Eloy Rojas Mamani v. Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 29, 2011No. 09-16246, 10-13071PublishedCited by 313 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs are the relatives of persons killed in Bolivia in 2003. All are citizens and residents of Bolivia. Plaintiffs bring suit under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) against two of the former highest-level leaders of Bolivia — the former president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Daniel Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante (“President”), and the former defense minister of Bolivia, José Carlos Sánchez Berzain (“Defense Minister,” and together with the President, “defendants”) — for decisions these leaders allegedly made while in high office. Given the indefinite state of the…
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