Legal Opinion
Owens v. Republic of Sudan
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided January 26, 2006No. CIV.A.01-2244(JDB)PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BATES, District Judge.
This civil action arises out of the August 7, 1998, terrorist attacks on the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. The nearly simultaneous bombings killed at least 224 individuals and wounded more than 4,000 others, among them the ten principal plaintiffs in this action. 1 Pursuant to a 1996 amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) that revoked jurisdictional protection for terrorist-sponsoring governments, plaintiffs filed this suit against the Republic of Iran, the Republic of Sudan, and two of their…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Papasan v. AllainSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A.Supreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Hishon v. King & SpaldingSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by39 opinions
- James Owens v. Republic of SudanCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2017
- Oveissi v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2012
- Gates v. Syrian Arab RepublicDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2008
- Baker v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab JamahiryaDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2011
- James Owens v. BNP Paribas, S.A.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2018
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