Legal Opinion
Weinstein v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 22, 2003No. CIV.A.00-2601 RCLPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
LAMBERTH, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on the motion of the United States to quash plaintiffs’ writs of attachment [40-1], which was filed on January 31, 2003. Upon consideration of the United States’s motion, plaintiffs’ brief in opposition thereto, the reply brief of the United States, and the applicable law in this case, the Court finds that the United States’s motion to quash should be granted in part and denied in part.
I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On February 25, 1996, Ira Weinstein, an American citizen, was injured in a suicide bombing undertaken by…
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