Legal Opinion
Acree v. Republic of Iraq
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 6, 2003No. CIV.A.02-0632 RWRPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ROBERTS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, former prisoners of war (“POWs”) during the Gulf War in 1991 and family members of those POWs, were awarded final judgment against defendants Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The United States has filed a post-judgment motion to intervene in order to raise Iraq’s newly-restored sovereign immunity as a challenge to the Court’s subject matter jurisdiction and to move to vacate the final judgment in this case. Because the United States is not entitled to intervene as a matter of right or…
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3Cited by5 opinions
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