Legal Opinion
Rachel Fraenkel v. Islamic Republic of Iran
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 8, 2018No. 17-7100PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Edwards, Senior Circuit Judge On June 12, 2014, sixteen-year-old Yaakov Naftali Fraenkel ("Naftali") and two of his classmates were taken hostage by members of Hamas while on their way home from school in Israel's West Bank. A half-hour after they were taken hostage, the boys were killed by their captors. Naftali's family brought suit in District Court against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ("Iran"), the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security, and the Syrian Arab Republic ("Syria") (collectively, "Appellees") under the terrorism exception to the Foreign…
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