Wyatt v. Syrian Arab Republic

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

These appeals address attempts to execute final judgments against the nation of Syria obtained by two groups of United States victims of Syrian state-sponsored terrorism. Both groups of victims have won judgments under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Both seek to satisfy their judgments by seizing the same Syrian assets located in the Northern District of Illinois.

We affirm the actions of the district court, which ordered the assets disbursed to the appellees, whom we refer to as the Gates plaintiffs. The legal issue we decide on the merits is that plaintiffs who…