DOE v. BIN LADEN

Civil Action No. 01-2516 (RWR).

580 F.Supp.2d 93 (2008)

John DOE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Sheikh Usama Bin-Muhammad BIN LADEN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Orfanedes, James F. Peterson, Judicial Watch, Inc., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

R. Michael Smith, Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberger & Hollander LLC, Baltimore, MD, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

RICHARD W. ROBERTS, District Judge.

Plaintiff John Doe brought an action as executor of the estate and personal representative of Jane Doe and on his own behalf invoking the noncommercial tort exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA"), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(5), alleging that the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan ("Afghanistan") unlawfully conspired with the Taliban and Iraq to conduct the September...

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