Supreme Court rejects Rumsfeld torture suit appeal

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday denied [order list, PDF] certiorari in an appeal from two US citizens who were detained and tortured by US forces in Iraq. In Vance v. Rumsfeld [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the court was asked to consider whether federal courts may entertain damages claims brought by US civilians who have been tortured by the US military, and whether Ashcroft v. Iqbal [JURIST report] imposes a heightened mental-state requirement in all constitutional tort...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/supreme-court-rejects-rumsfeld-torture-suit-appeal.php

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