BURNETT v. AL BARAKA INV. AND DEVELOPMENT CORP.

No. CIV.A.02-1616 (JR).

274 F.Supp.2d 86 (2003)

Thomas BURNETT, Sr., et al., Plaintiffs, v. AL BARAKA INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 25, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell R. Berger, Patton Boggs LLP, Lynne A. Bernabei, Alan Robert Kabat, Bernabei & Katz, PLLC, Washington, DC, Louis Richard Cohen, David Patrick Donovan, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Ugo A. Colella, Ronald S. Liebman, Patton Boggs, LLP, Brian Arthur Coleman, Michael J. McManus, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Washington, DC, Victor E. Cretella, III, Matthew Henry Simmons, Roger C. Simmons, Gordon & Simmons, Frederick, MD, Christopher M. Curran, Nicole Erb, Frank Panopoulos, White & Case LLP, Jonathan L. Greenblatt, Shearman & Sterling, Michael J. Guzman, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, P.L.L.C, Washington, DC, Michael Hadeed, Becker, Hadeed, Kellogg & Berry, Springfield, VA, Maher H. Hanania, Hanania Khader & Nawash, Falls Church, VA, Mark C. Hansen, Michael K. Kellogg, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, PLLC, William H. Jeffress, Jr., Baker Botts L.L.P., Peter J. Kahn, Williams & Connolly LLP, Matthew H. Kirtland, Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, Nancy Luque, Christopher Talbott Lutz, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Martin F. McMahon, Washington, DC, Brian Howard Polovoy, Henry Sabath Weisburg, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, John David Shakow, King & Spalding, Donna M. Sheinbach, Luque Sheinbach, LLP, Washington, DC, for defendants.

George R. Blakey, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN, Harry Huge, Washington, DC, Edward D. Robertson, Mary Doerhoff Winter, Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Obetz, Jefferson City, MO, for plaintiffs.

Paul J. Orfanedes, Judicial Watch, Inc., Washington, DC, for movant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROBERTSON, District Judge.

In this action, more than two thousand victims, family members of victims or representatives of victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, seek to hold accountable the persons and entities that funded and supported the international terrorist organization known as al Qaeda, which is now generally understood to have carried out the attacks. Plaintiffs have sued nearly two hundred entities or...

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