Legal Opinion
Michelle Van Beneden v. Abdallah Al-Sanusi
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 22, 2013No. 11-7045PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.
BROWN, Circuit Judge:
On December 27, 1985, members of the Abu Nidal Organization attacked the international flights terminals in Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Vienna’s Schwechat Airport, killing sixteen people and wounding over a hundred more. Peter Knowland was one of those injured in the Vienna attack. Over two decades later, he sued Syria, Libya, and a number of Syrian and Libyan individuals and organizations for sponsoring and supporting the terrorist attacks. 1 The district court dismissed the case as untimely, and Know-land’s…
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