Legal Opinion
Cohen v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 27, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2012-1496PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
Almost fourteen years ago, a Hamas operative boarded a bus travelling through Jerusalem and detonated a-bomb strapped to his body. Ora Cohen, her then-husband Shalom, and their five children — Meirav, Shira, Daniel, Orly and Elchanan — were passengers on the bus and all were injured in the blast. The Cohen family, along with Ora’s parents and two sisters, brought an action against the Islamic Republic of Iran (“Iran”) and two of its in-strumentalities, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian Ministry of…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Valore v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2010
- Peterson v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2007
- Nasrin Mohammadi v. Islamic Republic of IranCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2015
- Oveissi v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2012
- Braun v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2017
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Fritz v. Islamic Republic of IranCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2018
- Colvin v. Syrian Arab RepublicCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2019
- Goldstein v. Islamic Republic IranCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2019
- Ben-Yishai v. Syrian Arab RepublicDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2022
- Blank v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2021
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