A federal appeals court has blocked a group of Ecuadorian fishermen from pursuing most of their $5 million claim against the U.S. Coast Guard for unlawfully boarding their vessel, imprisoning some of them and destroying cargo and fish while searching for drugs in international waters near the Galapagos Islands in 2005.
The crewmembers, citing damage to their boat and their reputations, sued the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Suits in Admiralty Act and the Public Vessels Act. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday concluded that the fishermen’s claims were barred under the “discretionary function exemption.”
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