Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.

According to an article that appeared in October 2006 in The New Yorker, the CIA is a Jeppesen customer. The article claims that the company has provided navigational and logistics support to the agency's extraordinary rendition program.{{cite magazine

|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/30/061030ta_talk_mayer

|title=Outsourcing: The C.I.A.'s Travel Agent

|author=Jane Mayer

|magazine=The New Yorker

|date=October 30, 2006

|accessdate=February 2, 2011

}} The article says Jeppesen provided "flight plans, clearance to fly over other countries, hotel reservations, and ground-crew arrangements" to the CIA. According to the article, an unnamed former employee quoted Bob Overby, Jeppesen's managing director, as saying at a meeting, "We do all of the extraordinary renditions flights—you know, the torture flights. ... Let's face it, some of those flights end up that way... It certainly pays well."{{cite web

|url=https://www.aclu.org/safefree/rendition/33223lgl20071015.html

|title=Declaration of Sean Belcher

|author=Sean Belcher

|date=October 15, 2007

|format=PDF

|accessdate=February 9, 2009 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080306033737/http://www.aclu.org/safefree/rendition/33223lgl20071015.html |archivedate = March 6, 2008}}

On November 16, 2006, Amnesty International staged a demonstration in front of the company's International Trip and Flight Planning Office in San Jose, California to protest their involvement in the rendition program.[http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/western/11172006grp35_highlight.html Demonstration at Jeppesen Corporation in San Jose, California]. Amnesty International. November 17, 2006. In December 2006 representatives of the South Bay Mobilization for Peace and Justice group asked the San Jose City Council to remove a Jeppesen banner from a city skating rink. The group also holds a weekly vigil at the company's offices.[http://www.metroactive.com/metro/12.13.06/fly-0650.html Silicon Valley News Notes: Icecapade]. Metro Newspapers. December 13, 2006.

On May 30, 2007, the ACLU sued Jeppesen on behalf of five plaintiffs who had been tortured in Morocco, Egypt and a United States base in Afghanistan. The suit alleged that, since 2001, Jeppesen provided support for at least seventy flights for the CIA's secret extraordinary rendition program, transporting prisoners overseas to be tortured.{{cite news

|url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/05/31/boeing_subsidiary_accused_of_aiding_cia_torture_flights/

|title=Boeing subsidiary accused of aiding CIA torture flights

|author=Henry Weinstein

|work=Los Angeles Times

|date=May 31, 2007

|accessdate=February 2, 2011

}} The suit was dismissed in February 2008 on a motion from the United States government, on the theory that proceeding with the case would reveal state secrets and endanger relations with other nations that had cooperated.{{cite court |litigants=Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. |vol=539 |reporter=F.Supp.2d |opinion=1128 |pinpoint= |court=N.D. Cal. |date=2008 |url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/20081667539fsupp2d112811557 |accessdate=2017-10-09 |quote=}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/13/BAVIV270H.DTL

|title=Federal judge dismisses suit over torture flights

|work=San Francisco Chronicle

|accessdate=February 2, 2011

|author=Bob Egelko

|date=February 13, 2008

}}

On September 8, 2010, in a 6–5 en banc ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the suit,{{cite court |litigants=Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. |vol=614 |reporter=F.3d |opinion=1070 |pinpoint= |court=9th. Cir. |date=2010 |url=https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/174989/binyam-mohamed-v-jeppesen-dataplan-inc/ |accessdate=2017-10-09 |quote=}}{{cite web | author= Charlie Savage | title= Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A. | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/us/09secrets.html | work= The New York Times | date= September 8, 2010 | accessdate=February 2, 2011}} and the ACLU filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in December 2010.{{cite news |title=Test of 'state secrets' shield goes before Supreme Court |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2011-01-17-courtsecrets17_ST_N.htm |author=Joan Biskupic|work=USA Today |date=January 17, 2011 |accessdate=February 2, 2011}}

On May 16, 2011, the Supreme Court declined to review the decision of the Ninth Circuit to dismiss the case.{{citation |title=Order List 563 U.S. |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/051611zor.pdf |date=May 16, 2011 |accessdate=May 18, 2011}}

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