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Today, the D.C. Circuit held against 17 soldiers who sued Iraq for
damages and obtained a default judgment in the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia, in the amount of $959 million.
The
decision, published by Findlaw, in the matter of Clifford Acree et
al. v. Republic of Iraq et al. is partially based on the intervention
of the United States which argued that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
would deprive the court of its jurisdiction.
The court of appeals rejected this
argument but found that as in its prior ruling in Elizabeth A.
Cicippio-Puleo et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Ministry of
Information and Security of January 16, 2004, the plaintiffs had failed to
state a claim. Jurisdiction would lie with the court based on the terror
exceptions to the FSIA. -- Contributed by Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran
& Rowe, LLP, Washington, DC.
Fri, / / Embassy Law Link
