Court Opinion

ID: 9493225
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:01:40.592742+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:43.229694
License: Public Domain

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I do not join Section III of the opinion, because the question of whether petitioner would be entitled to judicial review of an extradition decision by the Secretary of State is not before us. I would hold only that the district court does not have jurisdiction to review petitioner’s claim under the Torture Convention, because the FARR Act does not authorize judicial enforcement of the Convention, see Sandhu v. Burke, No. 97 Civ. 4608, 2000 WL 191707, at *9 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 10, 2000), and the Convention is not self-executing under the four-part test of Saipan v. United States Dep’t of Interior, 502 F.2d 90, 97 (9th Cir.1974). See Barapind v. Reno, 72 F.Supp.2d 1132, 1148-49 (E.D.Cal.1999); see also Sandhu, 2000 WL 191707, at *10.