Summary A lower court judge dismissed Gross' lawsuit against the government in 2013.
WASHINGTON (AP) - An attorney for an American who has spent over four years jailed in Cuba argued before a federal appeals court that his client should be allowed to sue the U.S. government over his imprisonment.
An attorney for Alan Gross, who was a government subcontractor when he was detained in Cuba in 2009, appeared Friday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington.
A lower court judge dismissed Gross lawsuit against the government in 2013, but Gross lawyers appealed.
Gross was arrested while setting up Internet in Cuba as part of a project for the government s U.S. Agency for International Development. Cuba considers USAID s programs illegal attempts by the U.S. to undermine its government and Gross was given a 15-year prison sentence.
