A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that $1.75 billion for terrorism-related judgments against Iran can be distributed to victims of attacks, including a 1983 bombing that killed 241 Marines in Lebanon.

Washington lawyer Thomas Fortune Fay said that the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 13-2952-cv, affects 1,300 individual cases that were combined in New York.