HILL v. REPUBLIC OF IRAQ

No. 1:99CV03346 (TPJ).

175 F.Supp.2d 36 (2001)

Mel J. HILL, et al. Plaintiffs, v. REPUBLIC OF IRAQ, et al. Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark McLaughlin Hager, American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, Daniel Wolf, Michael D. Lieder, Cynthia J. Totten, Sprenger & Lang, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Mel J. Hill, Vivian C. Hill, Michael Barner, Richard Biasetti, Shane Foley, Jack Frazier, Cheryl Graham, As executor of estate of Lloyd Graham, David O. Morris, Mike Nickman, James P. Roach, plaintiffs.

Mark McLaughlin Hager, American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, Steven Michael Sprenger, Daniel Wolf, Michael D. Lieder, Cynthia J. Totten, Sprenger & Lang, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Young Hee Roach, Susan E. Vinton, Charlie Amos, Sarrah Amos, Petrica Brown, Richard Guy Sementelli, William Van Dorp, Floyd Watson, Mary Watson, plaintiffs.

Daniel Wolf, Sprenger & Lang, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Charles Coutre, Timothy Glenski, Gene Lovas, Myrl Lynn, B.J. Tinch, Stuart Williams, movants.


DECISION AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

In the summer of 1990 military ground forces of the Republic of Iraq crossed its border with Kuwait, invested the capital of Kuwait City, and seized control of the country with the objective of annexing it to Iraq. Kuwait's resistance was minimal, and within hours Kuwait was an occupied country.

In conjunction with its invasion of Kuwait, Iraq quarantined all foreign nationals then present within...

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