Legal Opinion
Jenny Rubin v. Islamic Republic of
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 29, 2011No. 08-2805PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
The Islamic Republic of Iran appeals two orders issued in connection with a long-running effort to collect on a large judgment entered against it for its role in a 1997 terrorist attack. The plaintiffs are American citizens who were injured in a brutal suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Israel, carried out by Hamas with the assistance of Iranian material support and training. The victims obtained a $71 million default judgment against Iran in federal district court in Washington, D.C., and then registered that judgment in the Northern District of Illinois for the purpose of…
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