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HEGNA v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. 11 MC. 5 (JSR).

769 F.Supp.2d 657 (2011)

Edwena R. HEGNA, as Executrix of the Estate of Charles Hegna, Late of Sterling, Virginia, and individually and Steven A. Hegna, Craig M. Hegna, Lynn Marie Hegna Moore, and Paul B. Hegna, Plaintiffs, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN and The Iranian Ministry of Information and Security, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 11, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Paul Dupont , The Dupont Law Firm, LLP, Stamford, CT, for Plaintiffs.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are the widow and children of Charles Hegna, an American diplomat murdered in a 1984 airplane hijacking orchestrated by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization with links to the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran"). In April 2000, plaintiffs filed an action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia pursuant to a provision of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Death Penalty Act that...

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