ESTATE OF MICHAEL HEISER v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Nos. 00-cv-2329 (RCL), 01-cv-2104 (RCL).

807 F.Supp.2d 9 (2011)

ESTATE OF Michael HEISER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants. Estate of Millard D. Campbell, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 10, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Charles Del Bianco , Kensington, MD, Richard Marc Kremen , David B. Misler , Melissa Lea Mackiewicz , DLA Piper US, LLP, Baltimore, MD, Shale D. Stiller , Elizabeth Renee Dewey , DLA Peper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Neil Keith Oilman , Hunton & Williams, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

On the night of June 25, 1996, a tanker truck crept quietly along the streets of Dhahran, coming to rest alongside a fence surrounding the Khobar Towers complex, a residential facility housing United States Air Force personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. A few minutes later, the truck exploded in a massive fireball that was, at the time, the largest non-nuclear explosion ever recorded...

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