CICIPPIO v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Civil Action No. 96-1805(TPJ).

18 F.Supp.2d 62 (1998)

Joseph J. CICIPPIO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Anne Barnes, James J. Oliver, Carla E. Connor, Murphy & Oliver, Norristown, PA, for Plaintiffs.


DECISION AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

Three male U.S. citizens, joined by the spouses of two of them, bring this action for damages for tortious injuries done to them in the course of their kidnapping, imprisonment and torture by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran") between the years 1985 and 1991 in Beirut, Lebanon. Jurisdiction is predicated upon 28 U.S.C. §§ 1330(a) and 1605...

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