Cases

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SALZMAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 17-2475 (RDM) ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION On September 4, 1997, three Hamas suicide bombers detonated explosives at a pedestrian mall on Ben Yehuda Street in

281 F.Supp.2d 258 (2003) Diana CAMPUZANO, Avi Elishis, and Gregg Salzman, Plaintiffs, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (aka Iran, The Republic of Iran, Republic of Iran, The Government of Iran, Iranian Government, and Imperial Government of Iran), The Iranian Ministry of Information and Security, and The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Defendants. Jenny Rubin, Deborah Rubin, Daniel Miller, Abraham Mendelson, Stuart E. Hersh, Renay Frym, Noam Roze

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ALAN BURKS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 16-cv-1102 (CRC) ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiffs are a group of U.S. servicemen (and their families and estates) who were killed or injured in

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FULD, et al. Plaintiffs, Vv. Case No. 20-cv-2444-RCL THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al, Defendants. ESTATE OF ARI FULD, et al. Plaintiffs, Vv. Case No. 20-cv-3492-RCL THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Ari Fuld was brutally stabbed in broad daylight. While shopping in the Gush Etzion Junction located in the West Bank near Jerusalem, Israel, Mr. Fuld was targeted by a Hamas militant wielding an

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PISTRICT OF COLUM_BIA ALLAN ROBERTS, et al., Plaintiffs, V. Case No. ·1:20-cv-1227-RCL THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION During the United States military's occupation of Iraq, insurgents attacked American troops and thei

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ESTATE OF KHALIL FARHAT, et al. Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 19-cv-03631-RCL THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Four decades ago, the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was blown to pieces by a suicide bomber. At the time, it was among the largest non-nuclear explosions ever detonated on the face of the Earth. Hundreds were slaughtered in that act of terror. Many more were injured. A

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARYN F. SELIG, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 1:19-cv-02889-TNM ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION This civil action for compensatory and punitive damages arises under the terrorism except

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SHIRLEY STEARNS, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:17-cv-131-RCL V. *FILED UNDER SEAL* THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN unsealed October 3, 2022

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RUTH SCHWARTZ, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 18-1349 (RDM) THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER This civil action for compensatory and punitive damages arises under the terrorism exception to the F

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TAYLOR FORCE, et al., Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 16-1468 (RDM) THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER This civil action for compensatory and punitive damages arises under the terrorism exception to

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHRISTINE LEVINSON et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 17-511 (TJK) THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Robert Levinson, a retired Special Agent with the FBI and DEA, was looking forward to returning home from an overseas busi

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MICHAEL FISSLER, et al., Plaintiffs v. Civil Action No. 18-3122 (CKK) ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant. AMENDED MEMORANDUM OPINION1 This case is one of many in this jurisdiction arising from terrorist attacks on coalition soldiers during the American inva

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) WILLIAM LEE et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Case No. 19-cv-00830 (APM)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) WILLIAM LEE et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Case No. 19-cv-00830 (APM)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ____________________________________ ) ESTATE OF BYRON W. FOUTY, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 18-385 (RBW) ) SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC, et al., )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) WILLIAM LEE, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Case No. 19-cv-00830 (APM)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA YITZHAK BEN-YISHAI, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:18-cv-3150-RCL v. THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC and THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendants. ; MEMORANDUM OPINION On November 4, 2001, sixteen-year-old Shoshana Ben-Yishai was rid

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DANI BUTLER, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 20-cv-02514 (ACR) v. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)—one of a handful of states whose egregious human-rights a

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ESTATE OF YAEL BOTVIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 1:21-cv-3186-RCL HEIDEMAN NUDELMAN & KALIK, P.C.,-et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION This case concerns a legal malpractice claim stemming from lengthy Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA") litigati

SUMMARY ORDER Plaintiffs-appellants Edwena R. Hegna, executrix of the estates of Charles Hegna and Paul B. Hegna, Steven A. Hegna, Craig H. Hegna, and Lynn Marie Hegna Moore (together, the “Hegna Parties”) appeal from (1) a December 3, 2013 order denying without prejudice as not yet ripe the Hegna Parties’ April 26, 2013 motion for partial summary judgment; (2) an August 21, 2014 order denying the Hegna Parties’ request for the district