Legal Opinion
Kilburn v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 30, 2004No. 03-7117PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Circuit Judge:
This case arises out of the kidnapping and murder of an American citizen in Lebanon between November 1984 and April 1986. Libya appeals from the denial of its motion to dismiss the case, arguing that sovereign immunity protects it from suit and that the plaintiff lacks a viable cause of action. We reject the first contention, concluding that the “terrorism exception” of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act *89(FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(7), strips Libya of the shield of sovereign immunity. We decline to exercise…
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