Families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, two fishermen from Las Cuevas, Trinidad, have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts against the United States for the 14 October airstrike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea that killed six, including the two men. The suit, brought by the ACLU, Seton Hall Law School and the Center for Constitutional Rights, alleges the strikes were illegal, amounting to murder without legal justification. It is the first U.S. lawsuit over the Trump administration’s so‑called "boat strikes" campaign, which the government claims is a lawful war against cartels under a secret Justice Department memo. The case invokes admiralty law, the Alien Torts Act and the Death on the High Seas Act, and seeks accountability for the killings in international waters. The families argue the strikes violate domestic and international law, a position contested by legal scholars. The suit follows a December human‑rights complaint by a Colombian victim’s family filed with the Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights.

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