Legal Opinion
Flanagan v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 3, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2010-1643PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
RUDOLPH CONTRERAS, United States District Judge
GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART THE Republic op Sudan’s Motion To Set Aside the Default Judgment
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiffs in this' case are the family members of Electronic Warfare Technician First Class Kevin Shawn Rux, who was killed along with sixteen other American sailors in the 2000 terrorist bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, carried out by Al-Qaeda. In 2010, Plaintiffs filed a lawsuit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”), 28 U.S.C-. '§§ 1602 et seq., against Syria, Iran, Sudan, and several of those…
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