Legal Opinion
Roeder v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 18, 2002No. Civ.A. 00-3110 EGSPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
SULLIVAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs filed this case seeking a belat,ed remedy for the horrible suffering to which they were subjected by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran more than 20 years ago. There is no dispute that members of the plaintiff class were held hostage, and at times tortured, for 444 days after being seized from the United States Embassy in Tehran by Iranian governmental officials. There is also no dispute that the spouses and children of those hostages, who comprise the remainder of the plaintiff class, were also held hostage during this time,…
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