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PUGH v. SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBRYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

Civil Action No. 02-02026 (HHK).

530 F.Supp.2d 216 (2008)

Robert L. PUGH, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 15, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Lee Martinez, Stuart H. Newberger, Shari Ross Lahlou, Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Arman Dabiri, Law Offices of Arman Dabiri & Associates, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM

HENRY H. KENNEDY, Jr., District Judge.

This action is brought pursuant to the "terrorism exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA"), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(7), arising from the September 19, 1989 bombing of Union des Transports Aeriens ("UTA") Flight 772, over the Tenere Desert in the African country of Niger. The aircraft operating as UTA Flight 772, a DC-10-30 wide-body aircraft owned by Interlease, Inc. ("Interlease"), was...

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