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CICIPPIO v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. 93-7047.

30 F.3d 164 (1994)

Joseph J. CICIPPIO, Elham Cicippio, David Jacobson, Appellants, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 29, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Godin, Norristown, PA, of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, pro hac vice, by special leave of the Court, argued the cause for appellants. On the briefs for appellants was Barbara A. Barnes.

Bruno A. Ristau, Washington, DC, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellee.

Before: WALD, SILBERMAN, and RANDOLPH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.

SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal from the district court's order dismissing their action against the Islamic Republic of Iran for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Concluding that kidnapping is not, by its nature, a commercial act, that dealings directly between two sovereign states do not constitute "commercial activity" within the meaning of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and that...

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