Legal Opinion
El-Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 27, 2009No. 07-5174PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GRIFFITH.
Opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.
*581GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge:
In 1998, the President of the United States ordered a missile strike against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that he believed was connected to the terrorist activities of Osama bin Laden. The owners of the plant sued the United States, challenging several allegedly defamatory statements made by senior executive branch officials justifying the strike as well as the government’s failure to compensate them for the…
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