Legal Opinion
Matar v. Dichter
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 16, 2009No. Docket 07-2579-cvPublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:
Appellants allege that they were injured or lost family members in the 2002 aerial bombing of a Gaza apartment complex by the Israeli Defense Force, and they allege that appellee Avraham Dichter, former head of the Israeli Security Agency, personally participated in the decision to bomb. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley, J.) dismissed appellants’ complaint, ruling (1) that Dichter is immune from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1602-1611, or (2) that in the alternative, the…
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