Legal Opinion
Bernhardt v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 22, 2023No. Civil Action No. 2018-2739Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DANA MARIE BERNHARDT et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 18-2739 (TJK) ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Almost 15 years ago, a Jordanian doctor with ties to al-Qaeda detonated his suicide vest at Camp Chapman, a covert American military installation in Afghanistan. The deadliest attack on the Central Intelligence Agency in recent history took the lives of nine persons at the base, including American contractors Jeremy Wise and Dane Paresi. Plaintiffs—the two contractors’ estates and family members—allege that…
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