Legal Opinion

Aviation & Gen. Ins. Co., Ltd. v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided February 12, 2018No. 2016-2389; 2016-2402PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion concurring in part, dissenting in part filed by Circuit Judge REYNA .

Stoll, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are insurance and asset management entities that paid property damage and personal injury claims arising from two terrorist events sponsored by Libya in the 1980s. Following the suspension of Libya's sovereign immunity pursuant to the passage of the State Sponsors of Terrorism Exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in 1996 and the National Defense Authorization Act in 2008, Appellants filed lawsuits against Libya in federal court, asserting their subrogation rights for…

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2Cases cited32 opinions

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  2. Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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  4. Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean SocietySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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