Legal Opinion
Holy Land Foundation for Relief & Development v. Ashcroft
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 8, 2002No. Civ.A. 02-442(GK)PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KESSLER, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (“HLF”), the largest Muslim charitable foundation in the country, brings this action challenging its designation as a terrorist organization and the resulting blocking of its assets as arbitrary, capricious and unconstitutional.
On December 4, 2001, the Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) of the United States Department of Treasury designated HLF as a specially designated terrorist (“SDT”), as a specially designated global terrorist (“SDGT”), and blocked all of its assets pursuant to the…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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3Cited by57 opinions
- Holy Land Foundation for Relief & Development v. AshcroftCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2003
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- United States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief & DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2013
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