Legal Opinion
Hegna v. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 10, 2012No. Civil Action No. 08-274 (RC)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
RUDOLPH CONTRERAS, District Judge.
Charles Hegna was an American passenger on a flight hijacked by Hezbollah ter*118rorists in December 1984. The flight was scheduled to proceed from Kuwait City to Karachi by way of Beirut; the terrorists diverted the plane to Tehran, where they murdered Mr. Hegna. His widow and four children brought suit under the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The court entered a default judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Ministry of Information and Security, both of which supported Hezbollah. In 2008, Congress…
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