Legal Opinion
Leibovitch v. Syrian Arab Republic
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 31, 2014No. 08 C 01939PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED ORDER
RUBEN CASTILLO, Chief Judge.
The Leibovitch family (“Plaintiffs”), a foreign national family that includes a child citizen of the United States, Shira Leibovitch, won a substantial award pursuant to the terrorism exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1605A, for various injuries sustained by Shira in a terrorist attack in Israel. Shlomo Leibovitch, et al. v. The Syrian Arab Republic, et al., 2011 WL 444762 (N.D.Ill. Feb. 1, 2011) (“Leibovitch I”). The Leibovitch family’s claims for the intentional infliction of emotional distress arising from…
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