A federal judge has entered a final judgment on liability for foreign nationals and their families seeking $12 billion in damages against Iran for terrorist acts in the 1980s. The case is the first test of whether a 2008 act offered a federal cause of action to non-U.S. citizen relatives of individuals killed while working for the U.S. government.
August 18, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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U.S. District Judge John Bates entered a final judgment on liability Tuesday for a group of foreign nationals and their families seeking $12 billion in damages against Iran for terrorist acts in the 1980s.
The case represented the first test of whether the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 offered a federal cause of action to non-U.S. citizen family members of individuals who were killed while working for the U.S. government.
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