Bloomberg Law
April 25, 2019, 8:51 AM UTC

CACI Fights ‘Unprecedented’ Abu Ghraib Torture Liability Ruling

Daniel Seiden
Daniel Seiden
Reporter/Editor

CACI Premier Technology Inc. says an “unprecedented” ruling that it may be liable for the torture of three former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison threatens to upend 200 years of sovereign immunity law.

The decision also opens “a veritable Pandora’s Box of threats to the United States that sovereign immunity was designed to protect,” including second guessing U.S. military decisions made during wartime operations, CACI told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit April 23.

A federal judge in Virginia disagreed in a novel ruling last month.

“There are some acts that are, as a matter of ...

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