FLATOW v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. 97-396 (RCL).

74 F.Supp.2d 18 (1999)

Stephen M. FLATOW, Plaintiff, v. THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, the Iranian Ministry of Information & Security, Ayatollah Ali Hoseinie Khamenei, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Ali Fallahian-Khuzestani, and John Does 1-99, Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven R. Perles, Washington, DC, Thomas Fortune Fay, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Philip D. Bartz, Deputy Asst. Atty. General, David W. Ogden, Wilma Lewis, Frank W. Hunger, Vincent M. Garvey, Sanjay Bhambani, Carol Federighi, David J. Anderson, Andrea G. Cohen, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

LAMBERTH, District Judge.

The United States moves to quash the writ of attachment entered by the Clerk of this Court on November 18, 1998, which purports to attach "all credits held by the United States to the benefit of the Islamic Republic of Iran," including U.S. Treasury funds owed to Iran in accordance with an award of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Seeking these funds to satisfy part of his prior judgment against...

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