Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.

Mohamed et al. v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. is a lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) on May 30, 2005, behalf of persons alleged to have been subjected to extraordinary rendition and extrajudicial detention by the Central Intelligence Agency. Jeppesen Dataplan, a subsidiary of Boeing, provided logistical services to the CIA flights. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, it was dismissed after a government invocation of the state secrets privilege, as with el-Masri v. Tenet. In September 2008, the ACLU petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to restore the suit.

The initial plaintiffs were:
 * Binyam Ahmed Mohammad, flown to Morocco where he alleges to have been seized in July 2002 and taken to interrogated under torture, for 18 months, by Moroccan intelligence; in July 2004 taken to two CIA facilities, one in Afghanistan and tortured again; and was, at the time of the filing, detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
 * Abou Elkassim Britel In May 2002, Italian citizen was handcuffed, blindfolded, stripped, dressed in a diaper, chained, and flown by the CIA from Pakistan to Morocco where he was tortured by Moroccan intelligence agents and where he is now incarcerated.
 * Ahmed Agiza, an Egyptian citizen, was seized in Sweden in December 2001, and flown, by the CIA, where he was imprisoned at the time of the filing where he still remains imprisoned. He states he was tortured.

Subsequently, two additional plaintiffs were added:
 * Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, a citizen of Yemen, taken into custody in Jordan, and given to CIA personnel who took him to a facility in Afghanistan, holding him there for 6 months. He was then flown to another unknown site in April 2004, held for over a year, and then flown to Yemen in May 2005, held for another 9 months, and released in Yemen. He states he was tortured.
 * Bisher al-Rawi, a citizen of Iraq and permanent resident in the U.K., was detained by, in November 2002, by local intelligence in Gambia, questioned there by CIA and Gambian personnel for two weeks, then flown to Afghanistan where he was held for two months. He was then flown to Guantanamo on February 7, 2003, but then returned to the U.K. on March 30; no charges were ever filed against him.

Its main legal basis was the Alien Tort Claims Act, although many of the more recent cases, beginning with Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, were not dealing with contractors or agencies of the U.S. government, merely defendants in the U.S. or with assets there.

9/25/2008 ACLU On August 21, Britain's High Court of Justice ruled that one of the men, Binyam Mohamed, is entitled to receive documents from the British government relating to his rendition, detention and interrogation, including documents confirming the cooperation between the U.S. and U.K. governments in those events. Last week another of the men, Ahmed Agiza, received a $450,000 settlement from the Swedish government for its role in his rendition to Egypt.