Legal Opinion
Price v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 23, 2004No. 03-7095PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GINSBURG.
GINSBURG, Chief Judge:
Michael Price and Roger Frey sued the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, better known as Libya, pursuant to the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(7), alleging various causes of action arising from their detention in that country in 1980. The district court denied Libya’s motion to dismiss and Libya appeals, arguing that (1) sovereign immunity protects it from suit because the plaintiffs, in depositions in another case, contradicted key allegations in their…
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