GOLDBERG-BOTVIN v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Civil No. 12-1292 (RCL).

938 F.Supp.2d 1 (2013)

Julie GOLDBERG-BOTVIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 4, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noel Jason Nudelman , Tracy Reichman Kalik , Richard D. Heideman , Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, P.C., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

This action against the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran") arises from an act of state-sponsored terrorism. The decedent, a fourteen-year-old United States citizen named Yael Botvin, was killed in a September 4, 1997, suicide bombing in the crowded pedestrian mall on Ben Yehuda Street in downtown Jerusalem, Israel, by Hamas. In a previous action under the former state-sponsored terrorism exception...

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