ARNOLD v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. 06-cv-516(RCL).

787 F.Supp.2d 37 (2011)

Lolita M. ARNOLD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 31, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Peter Drennan , Attorney-at-Law, Alexandria, VA, Thomas Fortune Fay , Fay Kaplan Law, PA, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This action was filed by U.S. servicemen and their family members to call defendants Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security to account for their role in the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The Court consolidated this suit — which was brought pursuant to the former "state-sponsored terrorism" exception to the Foreign...

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