Article: Do DEA field agents have the power to unilaterally execute a trans-border abduction? The Ninth Circuit's take on Alvarez-Machain v. United States.(Drug Enforcement Agency)

 
  I. CASE RECITATION 
 A. Facts 
1. DEA Agent Camarena and DEA Informant 
   Zavala's abduction and murder 
2. Alvarez's Abduction 
 B. Procedural Posture 
1. Alvarez's Criminal Trial 
2. Alvarez's Civil Action 
 
 II. ANALYSIS 
 A. The Alien Tort Claims Act 
 B. The Federal Tort Claims Act 
 
III. CONCLUSION 

Do United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents have the power to unilaterally abduct a criminal suspect from a friendly nation without that country's consent? To what extent does the Executive branch have to authorize such operations so that the conduct of the federal agents ceases to be a tortious ...

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