Legal Opinion
Acree v. Republic of Iraq
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 18, 2009No. Civil Action 02-632 (RWR)Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
RICHARD W. ROBERTS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, former prisoners of war in Iraq during the Gulf War and their family members, move under § 1083(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (“NDAA”), Pub.L. No. 110-181, 122 Stat. 338, to reinstate the final judgment issued on July 7, 2003, 271 F.Supp.2d 179, against defendants Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Plaintiffs’ complaint alleged that jurisdiction over the Iraqi defendants was proper under 28 U.S.C. § 1607(a)(7), the terrorism exception of the Foreign Sovereign…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Briggs v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Acree, Clifford v. Repub IraqCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2004
- Acree v. Republic of IraqDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2003
- Role Models America, Inc. v. GerenCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2008