RUBIN v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. 11-2144.

709 F.3d 49 (2013)

Jenny RUBIN, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants, Harvard University, et al., Trustees, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 27, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meir Katz , with whom Robert J. Tolchin and The Berkman Law Office, LLC were on brief, for appellants.

Paul R.Q. Wolfson , with whom Mark C. Fleming , Sydenham B. Alexander, III , Shirley X. Li Cantin , Janet R. Carter , and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP were on brief, for appellee Harvard University.

Simon J. Frankel , with whom Covington & Burling LLP, Robert J. Muldoon, Jr. , Thomas Paul Gorman , and Sherin and Lodgen LLP were on brief, for appellee Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Benjamin M. Shultz , with whom Mark B. Stern and Sharon Swingle , Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Stuart F. Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Carmen M. Ortiz , United States Attorney, Matthew Tuchband , Acting Chief Counsel, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and Harold Hongju Koh , Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of State, were on brief, for amicus curiae United States.

Before HOWARD, STAHL, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


STAHL, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants in this case are United States citizens who were injured in a 1997 terrorist attack that Hamas orchestrated in Jerusalem. They sued the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that Iran had provided material support to Hamas and was therefore liable for the attack. In 2003, the plaintiffs obtained a default judgment against Iran. Campuzano v. Islamic Rep...

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