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Supreme court rejects Alan Gross lawsuit over Cuba imprisonment
Supreme court rejects Alan Gross lawsuit over Cuba imprisonment
Associated Press in Washington
Monday 6 April 2015 10.35 EDT
The US supreme court won’t hear an appeal from a former government subcontractor seeking to sue the US government for negligence over his five-year imprisonment in Cuba.
The justices on Monday let stand a federal appeals court ruling that threw out Alan Gross’s $60m lawsuit blaming the federal government for failing to prepare him for the risks of working in Cuba.
Gross was freed in December as the US announced it would re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. He was working as a US Agency for International Development subcontractor in Cuba when he was arrested in 2009.
The US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled last year that the US government is immune from claims arising in a foreign country.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/apr/06/supreme-court-rejects-alan-gross-lawsuit-us-government-cuba-imprisonment
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