DAMMARELL v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. CIV.A.01-2224 JDB.

404 F.Supp.2d 261 (2005)

Anne DAMMARELL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Henry Newberger, Michael Lee Martinez, Monica Glynn Parham, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM OPINION (REVISED FINDINGS & CONCLUSIONS)

BATES, District Judge.

This case has been in the vanguard of mass-tort lawsuits brought by victims of terrorism against foreign states, as permitted by a 1996 amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA") that revoked jurisdictional protection for terrorist-sponsoring governments. During the more than four years that have passed since the eighty-three plaintiffs in this action first...

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