RUBIN v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Civil Action No. 06-11053-GAO.

810 F.Supp.2d 402 (2011)

Jenny RUBIN, et al., Plaintiffs-Judgment Creditors, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants-Judgment Debtors, v. Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University, et al., Trustee Process Respondents.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

September 15, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Strachman , Robert S. Parker , McIntyre, Tate, Lynch & Holt, Providence, RI, Richard J. Grahn , Edward V. Colbert, III , Georgia J. Asimakopoulos , Joseph S. Berman , Nancy L. Perlman , Looney & Grossman LLP, Boston, MA, for Plaintiffs.

Mark C. Fleming , Gregory P. Teran , Timothy R. Shannon , Wilmer Hale LLP, Adam S. Gershenson , Sydenham B. Alexander, III , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Robert J. Muldoon, Jr. , Courtney Amber Clark , Thomas P. Gorman , Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, Paul R.Q. Wolfson , Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, Jason M. Knott , Joshua A. Doan , William D. Iverson , Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, Simon J. Frankel , Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA, for Trustee.


OPINION AND ORDER

GEORGE A. O'TOOLE, JR., District Judge.

The plaintiffs, having obtained a default judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran") and others, moved to attach by trustee process various antiquities currently in the possession of the Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University (collectively, the "Museums") that the plaintiffs have alleged to be the property of Iran. The Museums have responded that any antiquities in their possession...

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