Legal Opinion
Chalabi v. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 27, 2007No. Civil Action 04-01353 (LFO)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
OBERDORFER, District Judge.
Currently pending is the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss the Complaint in its Entirety [dkt. # 9]. The calendar committee of this court transferred this motion to the undersigned for resolution. For the reasons stated below, that motion is GRANTED.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Plaintiffs Claims
Plaintiff Ahmad Chalabi is a citizen of the Republic of Iraq. Compl. ¶ 14. He moved to Jordan in 1977. ¶ 25. That same year, he founded Petra Bank, “a bank organized under the laws of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, having its principal place of business in Amman, Jordan.”…
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