Legal Opinion
Kaplan v. Hezbollah
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 7, 2010No. Civil Action 09-646 (RWR)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
RICHARD W. ROBERTS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs attempted to serve defendant Hezbollah by sending a summons and the complaint by DHL to Mohammed Fneish, a minister in the Lebanese government and an alleged leader within Hezbollah. Fneish received the package on March 18, 2010. On April 12, 2010, plaintiffs filed an affidavit of default as to Hezbollah, but the Clerk’s Office refused to enter default on the grounds that under 28 U.S.C. § 1608 Hezbollah had sixty days to answer or otherwise respond to the complaint, and that those sixty days had not yet elapsed. On April 15, 2010,…
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