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. . 28 U.S.C. § 1350 note, § 3(b)(1) (emphases added). The emphasized language is similar to section 2340's "severe physical or mental pain or suffering." (19) As the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has explained: The severity requirement is crucial to ensuring that the conduct proscribed by the [CAT] and the TVPA is sufficiently extreme and outrageous to warrant the universal condemnation that the term "torture" both connotes and invokes. The drafters of the [CAT], as well as the Reagan Administration that signed it, the Bush Administration that submitted it to Congress, and the Senate that ultimately ratified it, therefore all sought to ensure that "only acts of a certain gravity shall be considered to constitute torture.
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31. Based on a 1992 survey (conducted by the Insurance Research Council) of 61 insurers, representing 70 percent of all premiums paid for private passenger automobile insurance in the United States. 32. At the state level, the authors controlled for the type of no-fault laws, degree of urbanization, unemployment rate, and whether the state allowed punitive damages to be insurable.
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" Id. at 1337-38. And the fourth plaintiff "has flashbacks and nightmares, suffers from nervousness, angers easily, and has difficulty trusting people. These effects directly impact and interfere with his ability to work." Id. at 1340. In each case, these mental effects were continuing years after the infliction of the predicate acts. And in Sackie v. Ashcroft, 270 F.
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S. 246, 263 (1952). 14. This approach--distinguishing torture from lesser forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment--is consistent with other international law sources. The CAT's predecessor, the U.N. Torture Declaration, defined torture as "an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, U.N.
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