Legal Opinion
Owens v. Republic of Sudan
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 28, 2011No. Civil Action 01-2244 (JDB), 08-1349(JDB), 08-1361(JDB), 08-1377(JDB), 08-1380(JDB), 10-0356(JDB)PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN D. BATES, District Judge.
Over thirteen years ago, on August 7, 1998, the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were devastated by simultaneous suicide bombings that killed hundreds of people and injured over a thousand. Now, in this civil action under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”), plaintiffs — vie tims of the bombings and their families— seek to assign liability for their injuries to the Republic of Sudan (“Sudan”), the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Sudan, the Islamic Republic of Iran (“Iran”), the Iranian…
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3Cited by69 opinions
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