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CASE No. 15-15098
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
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SUNDUS SHAKER SALEH
on behalf of herself and those similarly situated,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
GEORGE W. BUSH, et al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District Of California,
Judge Jon S. Tigar, Case No. 3:13-cv-01124 JST
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AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF BY LAWYERS FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW IN
SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT URGING REVERSAL
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Attorney for Amici Curiae:
Jerome Paul Wallingford (SBN: 41235)
Address: 13223-1 Black Mountain Rd., PMB 297, San Diego, CA 92129
Telephone 858-484-2387; Email: wallingfordlaw@gmail.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CASES AND AUTHORITIES.....................................................3
IDENTITY, INTEREST AND AUTHORITY OF AMICI CURIAE ..............6
STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE PURSUANT TO FRAP 29(c)(5)............7
ARGUMENT....................................................................................................8
Summary.................................................................................................8
I. INTERNATIONAL LAW IS PART OF THE LAW OF THE
UNITED STATES AND SHOULD BE APPLIED BY ALL
FEDERAL COURTS .............................................................................9
II. INTERNATIONAL LAW PROHIBITS THE CRIME OF
AGGRESSION.......................................................................................10
III. ACTS OF AGGRESSION THAT VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL
LAW ARE ACTIONABLE UNDER THE ALIEN TORTS ACT ........16
IV. THE WESTFALL ACT SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED TO
PROVIDE IMPUNITY FOR THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION...........18
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................21
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TABLE OF CASES AND AUTHORITIES
US Constitution and Laws
Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. §1350............................................................16-18, 21
Constitution of the United States
Article VI, Clause 2................................................................................9
Article II, Section 3 ................................................................................18
Joint Congressional Resolution, 115 STAT. 224, P.L. 107-40 (September 18,
2001) 19-20 Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation
Act of 1988, 28 U.S.C. § 2679 (1988)..............................................................19-20
Treaties
Anti-War Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation, 4 Treaties,
Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements Between the
United States and Other Powers 4793, Sen. Doc. No. 134, 75th
Cong.,
3rd
Sess., (1938).................................................................................................11
Charter of the United Nations (1945) ...............................................................11-14
Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, 21 U.N.T.S. 324
(December 20, 1948) ........................................................................................11
London Agreement, 82 U.N.T.S. 280 (8 August 1945), establishing the
Tribunal to which the Charter of the International Criminal Tribunal is
annexed. I Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International
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Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946 ...............10, 15
Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, 999 U.N.T.S. 171
(26 December 1933) .........................................................................................11
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 2187 U.N.T.S. 3 (1998) ....15
Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the
renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy, 94 L.N.T.S. 57
(27 August 1928) ..............................................................................................15
Cases
Abdullahi, et al, v. Pfizer, Inc., (2nd
Cir 2009.) 562 F.3d 163 ..........................17
Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113 (1895)...............................................................9
Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against
Murray v. The Schooner Charming Betsey, 6 U.S. 64 (1804) ..........................16, 20
Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Merits, Judgment,
(1986)................................................................................................................14
II Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military
Tribunal 98-155 (1947) ....................................................................................14
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, vol. 22, 30 September 1946............................15, 21
United States v. Altstoetter, 4 Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals,
Case No. 35, 1 (U.N. War Crimes Commission) (1948)..................................18
United States v. Schooner Peggy, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 103, 110 (1801).............19
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Other Sources Cited
Jackson, R, “Report to the President on the Atrocities and War Crimes,”
(June 6, 1945) reprinted at p. 40, 53 of the Report of Robert Jackson
United State Representative to the International Conference on
Military Trials, London, 1945 ..........................................................................14-15
Resolution of the 6th
International Conference of American States, held
from January 16 to February 20, 1928, in Havana, Cuba, and adopted on
18 February 1928 ..............................................................................................13
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 95(I) of December 11, 1946 ...15
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 380(V), U.N. GAOR,
5th
Sess., 308 plenary meeting, 17 November 1950..........................................12
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625, (XXV), U.N. GAOR,
25th
Sess. Supp. No. 28, UN Doc. A/RES/25/2625 (24 October 1970)............13
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314(XXIX) (December 14,
1974) ................................................................................................................12-13
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IDENTITY, INTEREST AND AUTHORITY OF AMICI CURIAE
Counsel for the defendants has graciously consented to permit this brief to
be filed. The amicus curiae (Lawyers for International Law) are United States and
foreign lawyers or law teachers with expertise in United State and international
law. They have all represented or worked with victims of the use of force against
Iraq. They include Mr. Ramsey Clark, the 66th
Attorney-General of the United
States and a New York attorney; Mr. Abdeen Jabara, a former Michigan attorney
and former president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and
former president of the Association of American Arab University Graduates; Ms.
Jeanne Mirer, president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers,
co-chair of the International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, and
founding Board Member of the International Commission for Labour Rights, and a
New York Attorney; Professor Marjorie Cohn, former president of the National
Lawyers Guild, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson Law School; Mr. Arno
Develay, French avocat and a Washington State attorney; Mr. Paul Wolf, a
Colorado and District of Columbia attorney; Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke, Lecturer
in Law, University of the South Pacific and President, International-Lawyers.Org;
and Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler, visiting Professor of International Law at Webster
University Geneva and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International
Relations, and a District of Columbia attorney.
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STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE PURSUANT TO FRAP 29(c)(5)
Counsel for the parties did not author this brief. Neither the parties nor their
counsel have contributed money intended to fund preparing or submitting the brief.
No person – other than Amici, their members, or their counsel – contributed money
that was intended to fund preparing or submitting this brief. Attorney Wallingford
is representing the amici pro bono publico.
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ARGUMENT
Summary
(I) International law is part of the law of the United States both according to
the Constitution of the United States and the law decided by the United States
Supreme Court and therefore should be applied by all Federal Courts.
(II) International law prohibits the crime of aggression under both treaty and
customary international law as a non-derogable norm.
(III) Acts of aggression that violate international law are actionable under
the Alien Torts Statute and incur individual responsibility.
(IV) The Westfall Act should not be construed as providing immunity for
the crime of aggression. The Defendant-Appellees committed or contributed to the
crime of aggression knowing, or, when they should have known, that their actions
would constitute the crime of aggression, cannot be construed as falling within the
terms of their employment. Moreover, as a matter of policy the United States
cannot allow persons who have committed the international crime of aggression to
go unpunished, or for these plaintiffs to be denied a remedy. To allow the
defendants to be immunized for these acts is to grant them impunity for their
crimes and add to a culture of impunity. Fostering a culture of impunity is a
slippery slope to a lawless world.
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The Amici therefore urge the Court to allow the Plaintiff-Appellants to be
able to proceed to prove that the Defendant-Appellees committed unlawful acts
that injured them.
I. INTERNATIONAL LAW IS PART OF THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES
AND SHOULD BE APPLIED BY ALL FEDERAL COURTS
Article VI, Clause 2, of the Constitution of the United States makes treaties
entered into by the United States “the supreme Law of the Land.” Customary
international law is equally part of United States law and should be ascertained and
applied by the Court. The United States Supreme Court has long held that although
“[t]he most certain guide . . . [to the applicable international law] is a treaty or a
statute . . . when . . . there is no written law upon the subject, the duty still rests
upon the judicial tribunals of ascertaining and declaring what the law is . . . .”
Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 163 (1895). Mr. Justice Horace Gray, delivering the
Opinion of the United States Supreme Court stated that “[i]nternational law, in its
widest and most comprehensive sense . . . is part of our law, and must be
ascertained and administered by the courts of justice as often as such questions are
presented in litigation between man and man, duly submitted to their
determination.” Id.
A US Court may and should apply customary international law as mandated
by the Constitution of the United States and by the United States Supreme Court.
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II. INTERNATIONAL LAW PROHIBITS THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION
Treaties ratified by the United States as well as customary international law,
which has achieved the status of jus cogens, prohibit the crime of aggression.
The United States contributed significantly to the initiation of the
International Criminal Tribunal at Nuremberg by ratifying the London Agreement,
August 8, 1945, 58 Stat. 1544; 82 U.N.T.S. 280, establishing the Tribunal to which
the Charter of the International Criminal Tribunal is annexed. I Trial of the Major
War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14
November 1945-1 October 1946, at p. 8. Article 6, paragraph (a), of the Charter
expressly defines as crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the Tribunal “[c]rimes
against [p]eace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of
aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances,
or participation in a Common Plan or Conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of
the foregoing . . . .” Id. p. 11.
The United States also ratified, after initiating, the Treaty between the
United States and other Powers providing for the Renunciation of War as an
Instrument of National Policy, August 27, 1928, 94 L.N.T.S. 57, by which States
“solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn
recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as
an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.” Id. at art. 1.
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The United States also ratified the Anti-War Treaty of Non-Aggression and
Conciliation, 4 Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and
Agreements Between the United States and Other Powers 4793, S. 134, 75th
Cong.,
3rd
Sess. (1938), which entered into force for the United States on November 13,
1935, and which states in article 1 that its State Parties “solemnly declare that they
condemn wars of aggression in their mutual relations or in those with other states,
and that the settlement of disputes or controversies of any kind that may arise
among them shall be effected only by the pacific means which have the sanction of
international law.” The United States ratified the Inter-American Treaty of
Reciprocal Assistance, September 2, 1947, 21 U.N.T.S. 324, by which States, in
article 1, “formally condemn war and undertake in their international relations not
to resort to the threat or the use of force in any manner inconsistent with the
provisions of the Charter of the United Nations . . . .” The United States also
ratified the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, 999 U.N.T.S.
171 (1933), article 8 of which declares that “[n]o state has the right to intervene in
the internal or external affairs of another . . .” and its article 11 establishes
as the rule of their conduct the precise obligation not to recognize
territorial acquisitions or special advantages which have been obtained
by force whether this consists in the employment of arms, in
threatening diplomatic representations, or in any other effective
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coercive measure … [and] … that [t]he territory of a state is inviolable
and may not be the object of military occupation nor of other
measures of force imposed by another state directly or indirectly or
for any motive whatever even temporarily.
Finally, the prohibition of the crime of aggression is supported by the
Charter of the United Nations that prohibits, in its article 2, paragraph 4, the threat
or use of force by one State against another State except where it has been
authorized by the United Nations or where a State has been the subject of an actual
armed attack, but neither exception applies to the aggression against the people of
Iraq. United States ratified the Charter of the United Nations on July 28, 1945 and
was one of the founding nations of this intergovernmental organization.
These legally binding treaties have been supplemented by numerous
resolutions and declarations on which the United States has expressly joined the
consensus. For example, the United States voted in favor of United Nations G.A.
Res. 380(V), U.N. GAOR, 5th
Sess., 308 plenary meeting (Nov. 17, 1950), that
states in its first operative paragraph that “any aggression … is the gravest of all
crimes against peace and security throughout the world.” Subsequently, the United
States joined the consensus on the United Nations G.A. Res. 3314(XXIX), 29th
Sess. 2302 plenary meeting, (Dec. 14, 1974), which was adopted without a vote to
which the “Definition of Aggression” was annexed. This definition had been
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repeatedly vetted by legal experts including the General Assembly’s own Sixth
Committee on Legal Affairs. The Definition of Aggression in United Nations G.A.
Res. 3314 states definitively in its article 5, paragraph 2, that a “[a] war of
aggression is a crime against international peace.”
The United States also joined the unanimous consensus in adopting the
United Nations G.A. Res. 2625 (XXV), U.N. GAOR, 25th
Sess., Supp. No. 28, U.N. Doc. A/8028, (Oct. 24, 1970) entitled “Declaration on
Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation
among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,” which states
unambiguously that “[a] war of aggression constitutes a crime against the peace,
for which there is responsibility under international law.” This resolution is
expressly intended to reiterate existing rules of international law.
In its hemisphere’s regional context, the United States supported the
resolution of the Sixth International Conference of American States held from
January 16 to February 20, 1928, in Havana, Cuba, condemning aggression and
stating that a “war of aggression constitutes an international crime against the
human species.”
The United Nations principal judicial body, the International Court of
Justice, refers to the statements of government representatives as expressing the
belief that the prohibition of aggression is “not only a principle of customary
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international law but also a fundamental or cardinal principle of such law.”
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v.
United States of America), Merits, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1986, p. 14 at p. 100,
para. 188. The United States government had conceded that “it is generally
considered by publicists that Article 2, paragraph 4, of the United Nations Charter
is … an embodiment of existing general principles of international law,” id. quoted
by the Court at p. 99, para. 187, and that “the provisions of Article 2(4) with
respect to the lawfulness of the use of force are ‘modern customary law’.” Id. The
Court then duly notes that as concerns the prohibition of aggression that “[t]he
United States, in its Counter-Memorial on the questions of jurisdiction and
admissibility, found it material to quote the views of scholars that this principle is a
’universal norm’, a ’universal international law’, a ’universally recognized
principle of international law’, and a ‘principle of jus cogens’.” Id. at p. 101, para.
190.
Before the International Military Tribunal established at Nuremberg after
World War II, the American Prosecutor and later Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, Mr. Robert H. Jackson, argued “that whatever grievances a nation
may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an
illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions.” II Trial
of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal 98-155
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(1947) at p. 149. Justice Jackson in his “Report to the President on the Atrocities
and War Crimes,” (June 6, 1945) reprinted at p. 40, 53 of the Report of Robert
Jackson United State Representative to the International Conference on Military
Trials, London, 1945, states that “a war of aggression is a crime, and … modern
International Law has abolished the defense that those who incite or wage it are
engaged in legitimate business.”
The International Military Tribunal itself confirmed that “[t]o initiate a war
of aggression … is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international
crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the
accumulated evil of the whole.” Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, vol. 22, 30
September 1946 at p. 426. Subsequently, the United States joined in the unanimous
adoption of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 95(I) of December 11,
1946, entitled “Affirmation of the Principles of International Law recognized by
the Charter of the Nüremberg Tribunal,” that reaffirms the principles of
international law recognized by the Charter and judgment of the Nuremberg
Tribunal.
It is relevant to note that the United States’ concerns about the inclusion of
the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,
July 17, 1998, 2187 U.N.T.S. 3, in article 8bis were related to its application of this
crime by the International Criminal Court and not directed at the substantive
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existence of the crime of aggression, which the aforementioned sources undeniably
show has been supported by the opinio juris and practice of United States.
This is supported by the United States Supreme Court’s recognition of the
jurisdiction of the United States courts over the crime of aggression by implication
in numerous cases, including in the often-cited Ex Parte Qurin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942),
in which Justice Learned Hand writing the opinion for Court stated that “[f]rom the
very beginning of history, this Court has recognized and applied the law of war as
including that part of the law of nations . . . of war, the status, rights and duties of
enemy nations as well as enemy individuals.” Id. at 27-28. Indeed, 18 U.S. Code
§2381, PL. 114-9 punishes as treason the levying of war or support for violence
against the United States as a federal crime.
The crime of aggression is widely recognized under international law and
the United States government has repeatedly supported the position that the crime
of aggression is prohibited by international law. The courts of the United States
should therefore recognize the crime of aggression as part of international law.
III. ACTS OF AGGRESSION THAT VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
ARE ACTIONABLE UNDER THE ALIEN TORT ACT
Although the Alien Tort Statute is domestic law, whenever possible it should
be interpreted consistent with international law in accordance with the Supreme
Court’s holding in Murray v. The Schooner Charming Betsey, 6 U.S. 64 (2 Cranch)
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(1804).
The Alien Tort Statute was intended to create a cause of action for foreign
nationals who were injured by acts falling under the jurisdiction of the American
courts. Recently in Abdullahi, et al, v. Pfizer, Inc., (2nd
Cir. 2009), 562 F.3d 163,
174, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a norm for
which the Alien Tort Statute can apply “(1) is a norm of international character that
States universally abide by, or accede to, out of a sense of legal obligation; (2) is
defined with a specificity …; and (3) is of mutual concern to States.” In Abdullalhi
the court found involuntary experimentation on individuals to be prohibited finding
the three questions above to be answered affirmatively on the basis of treaties to
which the United States has consented by ratification and under customary
international that was proven by the practices and opinio juris as identified by such
bodies as the Nuremberg Tribunals. (Id. at 175-187). The Abdullahi Court of
Appeals also took into consideration acts by the United States finding that the
United States “government actively attempts to prevent this practice in foreign
countries.” (Id. at 187) In the present case the evidence of the principle of law
preventing aggression as an international crime that can be committed by
individuals is even more overwhelming than the evidence of the prohibition of
involuntary experimentation on human beings.
The international law prohibiting the crime of aggression provides for the
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individual responsibility of any person who commits, aids, or abettor before the
fact, during the fact, or after the fact, the crime of aggression. The subjective
knowledge of the defendant is not needed, but is assumed where objective
circumstances indicate that any person committing an act of aggression knew or
should have known that they were acting contrary to international law. United
States v. Altstoetter, 4 Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Case No. 35, 1, 88
(U.N. War Crimes Commission) (1948). The subjective culpability of the
Defendants-Appellees can therefore not function as a bar to their individual
responsibility.
As indicated in Section II above, international law unambiguously prohibits
aggression as an international crime thus the violation of the prohibition of
aggression creates a cause of action under the Alien Torts Statute.
IV. THE WESTFALL ACT SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED
TO PROVIDE IMPUNITY FOR THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION
The Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of
1988, 28 U.S.C. § 2679 (1988), should not be interpreted to provide Defendants-
Appellees impunity when there is prima facie evidence that the crime of
aggression has been committed.
The authority of the United States President rests on Article II of the
Constitution of the United States, which in the relevant part of its §3 states that “he
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shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” These laws include the
treaties and customary international laws that are part and parcel of United States
law, as indicated in Section I above. In the United States v. Schooner Peggy, 5 U.S.
(1 Cranch) 103, 110 (1801), Chief Justice John Marshall writing the opinion of the
United States Supreme Court held that when the President acts contrary to
international law his actions violate United States law.
As indicated in Section II above, the rules of international law
unambiguously prohibit the use of force by the United States against any nation
that has not carried out an armed attack against the United States. An individual
who directs or participates as a senior official in such a use of force, commits a
crime against peace or the crime of aggression, as has been indicated in Section II
above.
As concerns the use of force against the people of Iraq the Defendants-
Appellees were, or should have been, aware of the relevant law. In the District
Court the Plaintiff-Appellants proffered prima facie evidence that the Defendants-
Appellees knew or should have known that their actions were unlawful under well-
established international law that is part of United States law.
Consequently, the interpretation of any authorization for the Defendants-
Appellees’ actions must be consistent with the well-established international law
that is part of United States law and prohibits the crime of aggression. For
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example, Joint Congressional Resolution, 115 STAT. 224, P.L. 107-40 (September
18, 2001), adopted by the 107th
Congress, must be interpreted as only authorizing
the President and his senior officials to act in a manner that is consistent with
international law. In fact there is no wording in P.L. 107-40 that suggests that
Congress was expressly authorizing the President and his senior officials to act in
violation of international law. It follows from Murray v. The Schooner Charming
Betsey, 6 U.S. 64 (1804), that any authorization of action by the President and his
senior officials in P.L. 107-40 must be interpreted in a manner that is consistent
with international law.
Indeed, in this instance there were countless alternatives for action to which
the President and his senior officials could have resorted that were consistent with
international law. For example, the use of force could have been lawfully
authorized by the United Nations, but it was not. Defendants-Appellees instead
resorted to action that was in clear violation of international law.
In this circumstance, the Attorney-General erred in certifying that the
Defendants-Appellees “were each acting within the scope of their federal office of
employment,” Certification of Scope of Employment issued by the US Justice
Department on August 14, 2013. The commission of such a serious crime as the
crime of aggression cannot be construed to fall within the terms of Defendants-
Appellees employment.
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Finally, as an issue of policy, the courts’ review of the legality of the action
of the President and his senior officials ensures that the United States remains a
country based on the rule of law where no one is above the law.
The International Military Tribunal warned of the dangerous policy
consequences of asserting “that it is unjust to punish those who in defiance of
treaties and assurances have attacked neighboring states without warning … for in
such circumstances the attacker must know that he is doing wrong, and so far from
it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrong were allowed to go
unpunished.” Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, vol. 22, 30 September 1946 at p. 444.
CONCLUSION
The crime of aggression is prohibited by international law and furnishes a
cause of action for Plaintiffs-Appellants to bring their action. Therefore the Court
should allow Plaintiffs-Appellants to proceed to prove that the crime of aggression
has been committed in violation of international and United States law and that
they are entitled to a remedy under the Alien Tort Statute.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 1st day of June 2015.
By: /s/ JEROME PAUL WALLINGFORD
Attorney for Amici Curiae
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Certificate of Compliance Pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(7)(C) and Circuit
Rule 32-1 for Case Number 15-15098
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Form Must Be Signed By Attorney or Unrepresented Litigant and attached to
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Proportionately spaced, has a typeface of 14 points or more and contains
4,173 words (opening, answering, and the second and third briefs filed cross-
appeals must not exceed 14,000 words; reply briefs must not exceed
7,000 words),
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This brief complies with Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(1)-(7) and is a principal brief of no
more than 30 pages or a reply brief of no more than 15 pages.
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June 2, 2015 /s/ Jerome P. Wallingford
Date Attorney for Amici
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
Case Number 15-15098
Saleh v. Bush
Not All Case Participants Registered for the Appellate CM/ECF System
I hereby certify that I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court
for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by using the appellate
CM/ECF system on June 2, 2015. Participants in the case system who are
registered CM/ECF users will be served by the appellate CM/ECF system.
I further certify that one of the participants in the case is not a registered CM/ECF
user. I have mailed the foregoing document by First-Class Mail, postage prepaid,
to the following participant:
Glenn S. Greene
DOJ-U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Civil Division, Torts Branch
P.O. Box 7146, Benjamin Franklin Station
Washington, DC 20044-7146
s/ Jerome P. Wallingford
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  • 1. 1 CASE No. 15-15098 __________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT _________________ SUNDUS SHAKER SALEH on behalf of herself and those similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GEORGE W. BUSH, et al., Defendants-Appellees. __________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District Of California, Judge Jon S. Tigar, Case No. 3:13-cv-01124 JST __________________ AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF BY LAWYERS FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT URGING REVERSAL __________________ Attorney for Amici Curiae: Jerome Paul Wallingford (SBN: 41235) Address: 13223-1 Black Mountain Rd., PMB 297, San Diego, CA 92129 Telephone 858-484-2387; Email: wallingfordlaw@gmail.com Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 1 of 23
  • 2. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CASES AND AUTHORITIES.....................................................3 IDENTITY, INTEREST AND AUTHORITY OF AMICI CURIAE ..............6 STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE PURSUANT TO FRAP 29(c)(5)............7 ARGUMENT....................................................................................................8 Summary.................................................................................................8 I. INTERNATIONAL LAW IS PART OF THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES AND SHOULD BE APPLIED BY ALL FEDERAL COURTS .............................................................................9 II. INTERNATIONAL LAW PROHIBITS THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION.......................................................................................10 III. ACTS OF AGGRESSION THAT VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE ACTIONABLE UNDER THE ALIEN TORTS ACT ........16 IV. THE WESTFALL ACT SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED TO PROVIDE IMPUNITY FOR THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION...........18 CONCLUSION.................................................................................................21 Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 2 of 23
  • 3. 3 TABLE OF CASES AND AUTHORITIES US Constitution and Laws Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. §1350............................................................16-18, 21 Constitution of the United States Article VI, Clause 2................................................................................9 Article II, Section 3 ................................................................................18 Joint Congressional Resolution, 115 STAT. 224, P.L. 107-40 (September 18, 2001) 19-20 Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988, 28 U.S.C. § 2679 (1988)..............................................................19-20 Treaties Anti-War Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation, 4 Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements Between the United States and Other Powers 4793, Sen. Doc. No. 134, 75th Cong., 3rd Sess., (1938).................................................................................................11 Charter of the United Nations (1945) ...............................................................11-14 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, 21 U.N.T.S. 324 (December 20, 1948) ........................................................................................11 London Agreement, 82 U.N.T.S. 280 (8 August 1945), establishing the Tribunal to which the Charter of the International Criminal Tribunal is annexed. I Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 3 of 23
  • 4. 4 Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946 ...............10, 15 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, 999 U.N.T.S. 171 (26 December 1933) .........................................................................................11 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 2187 U.N.T.S. 3 (1998) ....15 Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy, 94 L.N.T.S. 57 (27 August 1928) ..............................................................................................15 Cases Abdullahi, et al, v. Pfizer, Inc., (2nd Cir 2009.) 562 F.3d 163 ..........................17 Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113 (1895)...............................................................9 Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Murray v. The Schooner Charming Betsey, 6 U.S. 64 (1804) ..........................16, 20 Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Merits, Judgment, (1986)................................................................................................................14 II Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal 98-155 (1947) ....................................................................................14 Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, vol. 22, 30 September 1946............................15, 21 United States v. Altstoetter, 4 Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Case No. 35, 1 (U.N. War Crimes Commission) (1948)..................................18 United States v. Schooner Peggy, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 103, 110 (1801).............19 Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 4 of 23
  • 5. 5 Other Sources Cited Jackson, R, “Report to the President on the Atrocities and War Crimes,” (June 6, 1945) reprinted at p. 40, 53 of the Report of Robert Jackson United State Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, London, 1945 ..........................................................................14-15 Resolution of the 6th International Conference of American States, held from January 16 to February 20, 1928, in Havana, Cuba, and adopted on 18 February 1928 ..............................................................................................13 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 95(I) of December 11, 1946 ...15 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 380(V), U.N. GAOR, 5th Sess., 308 plenary meeting, 17 November 1950..........................................12 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625, (XXV), U.N. GAOR, 25th Sess. Supp. No. 28, UN Doc. A/RES/25/2625 (24 October 1970)............13 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314(XXIX) (December 14, 1974) ................................................................................................................12-13 Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 5 of 23
  • 6. 6 IDENTITY, INTEREST AND AUTHORITY OF AMICI CURIAE Counsel for the defendants has graciously consented to permit this brief to be filed. The amicus curiae (Lawyers for International Law) are United States and foreign lawyers or law teachers with expertise in United State and international law. They have all represented or worked with victims of the use of force against Iraq. They include Mr. Ramsey Clark, the 66th Attorney-General of the United States and a New York attorney; Mr. Abdeen Jabara, a former Michigan attorney and former president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and former president of the Association of American Arab University Graduates; Ms. Jeanne Mirer, president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, co-chair of the International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, and founding Board Member of the International Commission for Labour Rights, and a New York Attorney; Professor Marjorie Cohn, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson Law School; Mr. Arno Develay, French avocat and a Washington State attorney; Mr. Paul Wolf, a Colorado and District of Columbia attorney; Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke, Lecturer in Law, University of the South Pacific and President, International-Lawyers.Org; and Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler, visiting Professor of International Law at Webster University Geneva and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, and a District of Columbia attorney. Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 6 of 23
  • 7. 7 STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE PURSUANT TO FRAP 29(c)(5) Counsel for the parties did not author this brief. Neither the parties nor their counsel have contributed money intended to fund preparing or submitting the brief. No person – other than Amici, their members, or their counsel – contributed money that was intended to fund preparing or submitting this brief. Attorney Wallingford is representing the amici pro bono publico. Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 7 of 23
  • 8. 8 ARGUMENT Summary (I) International law is part of the law of the United States both according to the Constitution of the United States and the law decided by the United States Supreme Court and therefore should be applied by all Federal Courts. (II) International law prohibits the crime of aggression under both treaty and customary international law as a non-derogable norm. (III) Acts of aggression that violate international law are actionable under the Alien Torts Statute and incur individual responsibility. (IV) The Westfall Act should not be construed as providing immunity for the crime of aggression. The Defendant-Appellees committed or contributed to the crime of aggression knowing, or, when they should have known, that their actions would constitute the crime of aggression, cannot be construed as falling within the terms of their employment. Moreover, as a matter of policy the United States cannot allow persons who have committed the international crime of aggression to go unpunished, or for these plaintiffs to be denied a remedy. To allow the defendants to be immunized for these acts is to grant them impunity for their crimes and add to a culture of impunity. Fostering a culture of impunity is a slippery slope to a lawless world. Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 8 of 23
  • 9. 9 The Amici therefore urge the Court to allow the Plaintiff-Appellants to be able to proceed to prove that the Defendant-Appellees committed unlawful acts that injured them. I. INTERNATIONAL LAW IS PART OF THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES AND SHOULD BE APPLIED BY ALL FEDERAL COURTS Article VI, Clause 2, of the Constitution of the United States makes treaties entered into by the United States “the supreme Law of the Land.” Customary international law is equally part of United States law and should be ascertained and applied by the Court. The United States Supreme Court has long held that although “[t]he most certain guide . . . [to the applicable international law] is a treaty or a statute . . . when . . . there is no written law upon the subject, the duty still rests upon the judicial tribunals of ascertaining and declaring what the law is . . . .” Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 163 (1895). Mr. Justice Horace Gray, delivering the Opinion of the United States Supreme Court stated that “[i]nternational law, in its widest and most comprehensive sense . . . is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice as often as such questions are presented in litigation between man and man, duly submitted to their determination.” Id. A US Court may and should apply customary international law as mandated by the Constitution of the United States and by the United States Supreme Court. Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 9 of 23
  • 10. 10 II. INTERNATIONAL LAW PROHIBITS THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION Treaties ratified by the United States as well as customary international law, which has achieved the status of jus cogens, prohibit the crime of aggression. The United States contributed significantly to the initiation of the International Criminal Tribunal at Nuremberg by ratifying the London Agreement, August 8, 1945, 58 Stat. 1544; 82 U.N.T.S. 280, establishing the Tribunal to which the Charter of the International Criminal Tribunal is annexed. I Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, at p. 8. Article 6, paragraph (a), of the Charter expressly defines as crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the Tribunal “[c]rimes against [p]eace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a Common Plan or Conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing . . . .” Id. p. 11. The United States also ratified, after initiating, the Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, August 27, 1928, 94 L.N.T.S. 57, by which States “solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.” Id. at art. 1. Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 10 of 23
  • 11. 11 The United States also ratified the Anti-War Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation, 4 Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements Between the United States and Other Powers 4793, S. 134, 75th Cong., 3rd Sess. (1938), which entered into force for the United States on November 13, 1935, and which states in article 1 that its State Parties “solemnly declare that they condemn wars of aggression in their mutual relations or in those with other states, and that the settlement of disputes or controversies of any kind that may arise among them shall be effected only by the pacific means which have the sanction of international law.” The United States ratified the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, September 2, 1947, 21 U.N.T.S. 324, by which States, in article 1, “formally condemn war and undertake in their international relations not to resort to the threat or the use of force in any manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations . . . .” The United States also ratified the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, 999 U.N.T.S. 171 (1933), article 8 of which declares that “[n]o state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another . . .” and its article 11 establishes as the rule of their conduct the precise obligation not to recognize territorial acquisitions or special advantages which have been obtained by force whether this consists in the employment of arms, in threatening diplomatic representations, or in any other effective Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 11 of 23
  • 12. 12 coercive measure … [and] … that [t]he territory of a state is inviolable and may not be the object of military occupation nor of other measures of force imposed by another state directly or indirectly or for any motive whatever even temporarily. Finally, the prohibition of the crime of aggression is supported by the Charter of the United Nations that prohibits, in its article 2, paragraph 4, the threat or use of force by one State against another State except where it has been authorized by the United Nations or where a State has been the subject of an actual armed attack, but neither exception applies to the aggression against the people of Iraq. United States ratified the Charter of the United Nations on July 28, 1945 and was one of the founding nations of this intergovernmental organization. These legally binding treaties have been supplemented by numerous resolutions and declarations on which the United States has expressly joined the consensus. For example, the United States voted in favor of United Nations G.A. Res. 380(V), U.N. GAOR, 5th Sess., 308 plenary meeting (Nov. 17, 1950), that states in its first operative paragraph that “any aggression … is the gravest of all crimes against peace and security throughout the world.” Subsequently, the United States joined the consensus on the United Nations G.A. Res. 3314(XXIX), 29th Sess. 2302 plenary meeting, (Dec. 14, 1974), which was adopted without a vote to which the “Definition of Aggression” was annexed. This definition had been Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 12 of 23
  • 13. 13 repeatedly vetted by legal experts including the General Assembly’s own Sixth Committee on Legal Affairs. The Definition of Aggression in United Nations G.A. Res. 3314 states definitively in its article 5, paragraph 2, that a “[a] war of aggression is a crime against international peace.” The United States also joined the unanimous consensus in adopting the United Nations G.A. Res. 2625 (XXV), U.N. GAOR, 25th Sess., Supp. No. 28, U.N. Doc. A/8028, (Oct. 24, 1970) entitled “Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,” which states unambiguously that “[a] war of aggression constitutes a crime against the peace, for which there is responsibility under international law.” This resolution is expressly intended to reiterate existing rules of international law. In its hemisphere’s regional context, the United States supported the resolution of the Sixth International Conference of American States held from January 16 to February 20, 1928, in Havana, Cuba, condemning aggression and stating that a “war of aggression constitutes an international crime against the human species.” The United Nations principal judicial body, the International Court of Justice, refers to the statements of government representatives as expressing the belief that the prohibition of aggression is “not only a principle of customary Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 13 of 23
  • 14. 14 international law but also a fundamental or cardinal principle of such law.” Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Merits, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1986, p. 14 at p. 100, para. 188. The United States government had conceded that “it is generally considered by publicists that Article 2, paragraph 4, of the United Nations Charter is … an embodiment of existing general principles of international law,” id. quoted by the Court at p. 99, para. 187, and that “the provisions of Article 2(4) with respect to the lawfulness of the use of force are ‘modern customary law’.” Id. The Court then duly notes that as concerns the prohibition of aggression that “[t]he United States, in its Counter-Memorial on the questions of jurisdiction and admissibility, found it material to quote the views of scholars that this principle is a ’universal norm’, a ’universal international law’, a ’universally recognized principle of international law’, and a ‘principle of jus cogens’.” Id. at p. 101, para. 190. Before the International Military Tribunal established at Nuremberg after World War II, the American Prosecutor and later Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Robert H. Jackson, argued “that whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions.” II Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal 98-155 Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 14 of 23
  • 15. 15 (1947) at p. 149. Justice Jackson in his “Report to the President on the Atrocities and War Crimes,” (June 6, 1945) reprinted at p. 40, 53 of the Report of Robert Jackson United State Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, London, 1945, states that “a war of aggression is a crime, and … modern International Law has abolished the defense that those who incite or wage it are engaged in legitimate business.” The International Military Tribunal itself confirmed that “[t]o initiate a war of aggression … is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, vol. 22, 30 September 1946 at p. 426. Subsequently, the United States joined in the unanimous adoption of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 95(I) of December 11, 1946, entitled “Affirmation of the Principles of International Law recognized by the Charter of the Nüremberg Tribunal,” that reaffirms the principles of international law recognized by the Charter and judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal. It is relevant to note that the United States’ concerns about the inclusion of the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, July 17, 1998, 2187 U.N.T.S. 3, in article 8bis were related to its application of this crime by the International Criminal Court and not directed at the substantive Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 15 of 23
  • 16. 16 existence of the crime of aggression, which the aforementioned sources undeniably show has been supported by the opinio juris and practice of United States. This is supported by the United States Supreme Court’s recognition of the jurisdiction of the United States courts over the crime of aggression by implication in numerous cases, including in the often-cited Ex Parte Qurin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), in which Justice Learned Hand writing the opinion for Court stated that “[f]rom the very beginning of history, this Court has recognized and applied the law of war as including that part of the law of nations . . . of war, the status, rights and duties of enemy nations as well as enemy individuals.” Id. at 27-28. Indeed, 18 U.S. Code §2381, PL. 114-9 punishes as treason the levying of war or support for violence against the United States as a federal crime. The crime of aggression is widely recognized under international law and the United States government has repeatedly supported the position that the crime of aggression is prohibited by international law. The courts of the United States should therefore recognize the crime of aggression as part of international law. III. ACTS OF AGGRESSION THAT VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE ACTIONABLE UNDER THE ALIEN TORT ACT Although the Alien Tort Statute is domestic law, whenever possible it should be interpreted consistent with international law in accordance with the Supreme Court’s holding in Murray v. The Schooner Charming Betsey, 6 U.S. 64 (2 Cranch) Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 16 of 23
  • 17. 17 (1804). The Alien Tort Statute was intended to create a cause of action for foreign nationals who were injured by acts falling under the jurisdiction of the American courts. Recently in Abdullahi, et al, v. Pfizer, Inc., (2nd Cir. 2009), 562 F.3d 163, 174, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a norm for which the Alien Tort Statute can apply “(1) is a norm of international character that States universally abide by, or accede to, out of a sense of legal obligation; (2) is defined with a specificity …; and (3) is of mutual concern to States.” In Abdullalhi the court found involuntary experimentation on individuals to be prohibited finding the three questions above to be answered affirmatively on the basis of treaties to which the United States has consented by ratification and under customary international that was proven by the practices and opinio juris as identified by such bodies as the Nuremberg Tribunals. (Id. at 175-187). The Abdullahi Court of Appeals also took into consideration acts by the United States finding that the United States “government actively attempts to prevent this practice in foreign countries.” (Id. at 187) In the present case the evidence of the principle of law preventing aggression as an international crime that can be committed by individuals is even more overwhelming than the evidence of the prohibition of involuntary experimentation on human beings. The international law prohibiting the crime of aggression provides for the Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 17 of 23
  • 18. 18 individual responsibility of any person who commits, aids, or abettor before the fact, during the fact, or after the fact, the crime of aggression. The subjective knowledge of the defendant is not needed, but is assumed where objective circumstances indicate that any person committing an act of aggression knew or should have known that they were acting contrary to international law. United States v. Altstoetter, 4 Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Case No. 35, 1, 88 (U.N. War Crimes Commission) (1948). The subjective culpability of the Defendants-Appellees can therefore not function as a bar to their individual responsibility. As indicated in Section II above, international law unambiguously prohibits aggression as an international crime thus the violation of the prohibition of aggression creates a cause of action under the Alien Torts Statute. IV. THE WESTFALL ACT SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED TO PROVIDE IMPUNITY FOR THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION The Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988, 28 U.S.C. § 2679 (1988), should not be interpreted to provide Defendants- Appellees impunity when there is prima facie evidence that the crime of aggression has been committed. The authority of the United States President rests on Article II of the Constitution of the United States, which in the relevant part of its §3 states that “he Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 18 of 23
  • 19. 19 shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” These laws include the treaties and customary international laws that are part and parcel of United States law, as indicated in Section I above. In the United States v. Schooner Peggy, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 103, 110 (1801), Chief Justice John Marshall writing the opinion of the United States Supreme Court held that when the President acts contrary to international law his actions violate United States law. As indicated in Section II above, the rules of international law unambiguously prohibit the use of force by the United States against any nation that has not carried out an armed attack against the United States. An individual who directs or participates as a senior official in such a use of force, commits a crime against peace or the crime of aggression, as has been indicated in Section II above. As concerns the use of force against the people of Iraq the Defendants- Appellees were, or should have been, aware of the relevant law. In the District Court the Plaintiff-Appellants proffered prima facie evidence that the Defendants- Appellees knew or should have known that their actions were unlawful under well- established international law that is part of United States law. Consequently, the interpretation of any authorization for the Defendants- Appellees’ actions must be consistent with the well-established international law that is part of United States law and prohibits the crime of aggression. For Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 19 of 23
  • 20. 20 example, Joint Congressional Resolution, 115 STAT. 224, P.L. 107-40 (September 18, 2001), adopted by the 107th Congress, must be interpreted as only authorizing the President and his senior officials to act in a manner that is consistent with international law. In fact there is no wording in P.L. 107-40 that suggests that Congress was expressly authorizing the President and his senior officials to act in violation of international law. It follows from Murray v. The Schooner Charming Betsey, 6 U.S. 64 (1804), that any authorization of action by the President and his senior officials in P.L. 107-40 must be interpreted in a manner that is consistent with international law. Indeed, in this instance there were countless alternatives for action to which the President and his senior officials could have resorted that were consistent with international law. For example, the use of force could have been lawfully authorized by the United Nations, but it was not. Defendants-Appellees instead resorted to action that was in clear violation of international law. In this circumstance, the Attorney-General erred in certifying that the Defendants-Appellees “were each acting within the scope of their federal office of employment,” Certification of Scope of Employment issued by the US Justice Department on August 14, 2013. The commission of such a serious crime as the crime of aggression cannot be construed to fall within the terms of Defendants- Appellees employment. Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 20 of 23
  • 21. 21 Finally, as an issue of policy, the courts’ review of the legality of the action of the President and his senior officials ensures that the United States remains a country based on the rule of law where no one is above the law. The International Military Tribunal warned of the dangerous policy consequences of asserting “that it is unjust to punish those who in defiance of treaties and assurances have attacked neighboring states without warning … for in such circumstances the attacker must know that he is doing wrong, and so far from it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrong were allowed to go unpunished.” Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, vol. 22, 30 September 1946 at p. 444. CONCLUSION The crime of aggression is prohibited by international law and furnishes a cause of action for Plaintiffs-Appellants to bring their action. Therefore the Court should allow Plaintiffs-Appellants to proceed to prove that the crime of aggression has been committed in violation of international and United States law and that they are entitled to a remedy under the Alien Tort Statute. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 1st day of June 2015. By: /s/ JEROME PAUL WALLINGFORD Attorney for Amici Curiae Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 21 of 23
  • 22. Certificate of Compliance Pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(7)(C) and Circuit Rule 32-1 for Case Number 15-15098 _______________________ Form Must Be Signed By Attorney or Unrepresented Litigant and attached to the back of each copy of the brief I certify that: (check appropriate option(s)) X 1. Pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 32 (a)(7)(C) and Ninth Circuit Rule 32-1, the attached brief of appellant is Proportionately spaced, has a typeface of 14 points or more and contains 4,173 words (opening, answering, and the second and third briefs filed cross- appeals must not exceed 14,000 words; reply briefs must not exceed 7,000 words), ___2. The attached brief is not subject to the type-volume limitations of Fed. R.App. P. 32(a)(7)(B) because This brief complies with Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(1)-(7) and is a principal brief of no more than 30 pages or a reply brief of no more than 15 pages. X 3. This brief complies with the typeface requirements of Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(5) and the type-style requirements of Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(6) because: This brief has been prepared in a proportionally spaced typeface using Microsoft Word for MacIntosh 14 point Times New Roman font. June 2, 2015 /s/ Jerome P. Wallingford Date Attorney for Amici Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 22 of 23
  • 23. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Case Number 15-15098 Saleh v. Bush Not All Case Participants Registered for the Appellate CM/ECF System I hereby certify that I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by using the appellate CM/ECF system on June 2, 2015. Participants in the case system who are registered CM/ECF users will be served by the appellate CM/ECF system. I further certify that one of the participants in the case is not a registered CM/ECF user. I have mailed the foregoing document by First-Class Mail, postage prepaid, to the following participant: Glenn S. Greene DOJ-U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Civil Division, Torts Branch P.O. Box 7146, Benjamin Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044-7146 s/ Jerome P. Wallingford Case: 15-15098, 06/02/2015, ID: 9558482, DktEntry: 16, Page 23 of 23