Legal Opinion
Smith v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 12, 1995No. 9:94-cv-05556PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
PLATT, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Bruce Smith and Paul Hudson, as personal representatives of victims who died in the bombing of Pan American Airways, Inc. (Pan Am) Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, seek to recover civil damages. 1 Smith sues the So eialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Libyan Arab Airlines, The Libyan External Security Organization, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah as agents and instrumentalities of Libya. Hudson sues the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (heretofore defendants for both cases are…
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