Ex-Panamanian President Unable to Pursue Extradition Lawsuit

Former Panamanian president Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Berrocal lost an appeal seeking to revive his lawsuit related to his 2018 extradition from the US, after the Eleventh Circuit held on Wednesday that he lacked standing to sue.

Martinelli’s alleged injury—prosecution for money laundering in Panama—isn’t “fairly traceable” to the US government’s actions, and the declaratory judgment he sought wouldn’t redress his alleged harm, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said.

Martinelli also lacked standing under the extradition treaty’s “rule of specialty,” the court said. Any right he had to challenge a violation of that rule was derivative of ...