Legal Opinion
O'Neill v. Garland
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 5, 2022No. Civil Action No. 2021-1288Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHRISTINE I. O’NEILL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 21-1288 (JEB) MERRICK B. GARLAND, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION In 2015, Congress established the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, which draws largely from sanctions penalties to compensate those who have obtained judgments against foreign countries for acts of state-sponsored terrorism. Plaintiffs are 9/11- related claimants, who, for the count that remains in this case, became eligible to draw payments from the Fund only in the third round…
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