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HEGNA v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Docket No. 04-1230-CV.

402 F.3d 97 (2005)

Edwena R. HEGNA, Steven Hegna, Craig Hegna, Lynn Marie Hegna Moore, Paul Hegna, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN and the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security, Defendants-Appellees, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 8, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph P. Dupont, Dupont and Radlauer, L.L.P. (Barbara J. Radlauer, Dupont and Radlauer, L.L.P., Stamford, CT, Raymond A. Connell, McMahon & Connell, P.C., New York, NY, of counsel), Stamford, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Andrew D. O'Toole, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney, Meredith E. Kotler, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), New York, NY, for Intervenor-Appellee.

Before: NEWMAN, SACK, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

BACKGROUND

PER CURIAM.

This appeal represents the plaintiffs' fourth attempt before as many Circuit courts to enforce in part their $375 million judgment against the government of Iran for its role in the death of Charles Hegna, an American diplomat murdered by members of Hezbollah, an organization with links to the government of Iran, during a 1984 airplane hijacking. The Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Circuits have rejected similar appeals by the Hegna family...

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