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Article: Political question.
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- International Law Update
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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District of Columbia Circuit rules, 2 to 1, that legality of 1998 United States missile strikes on Sudanese pharmaceutical factory with alleged terrorist ties presents non-justiciable Political Question
The owners of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan (Plaintiffs) sued the U.S. (Defendant) after the U.S. destroyed it with missiles in 1998. The U.S. President had ordered the missile strike shortly after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania because of the plant's alleged connections to Osama bin Laden.
Plaintiffs first sued in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, seeking compensation under the Takings Clause of the Constitution. The ...