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ESTATES OF UNGAR EX REL. STRACHMAN v. PALES. AUTH.

C.A. No. 00-105L.

228 F.Supp.2d 40 (2002)

The ESTATES OF Yaron UNGAR and Efrat Ungar, by and through the Administrator of their estates David STRACHMAN; Dvir Ungar, minor, by his guardians and next friend; Yishai Ungar, minor, by his guardians and next friend; Professor Meyer Ungar, Judith Ungar, Rabbi Uri Dasberg, Judith Dasberg, (individually and in their capacities as legal guardians of plaintiffs Dvir Ungar and Yishai Ungar); Amichai Ungar; Dafna Ungar and Michal Cohen, Plaintiffs, v. The PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY (a.k.a. "The Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority"), The Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, Jibril Rajoub, Muhammed Dahlan, Amin Al-Hindi, Tawfik Tirawi, Razi Jabali, Hamas-Islamic Resistance Movement (a.k.a. "Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamiyya"), Abdel Rahman Ismail Abdel Rahman Ghanimat, Jamal Abdel Fatah Tzabich Al Hor, Raed Fakhri Abu Hamdiya, Ibrahim Ghanimat and Iman Mahmud Hassan Fuad Kafishe, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

November 4, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Strachman, McIntyre, Tate, Lynch & Holt, Counsellors at Law, Providence, RI, for Plaintiffs.

Ramsey Clark and Lawrence W. Schilling, Ramsey Clark & Lawrence W. Schilling Law Offices, New York City, Deming E. Sherman, Edwards & Angell, Providence, RI, for Defendants.

DECISION AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiffs filed this amended action for damages under the federal counterterroism statutes, 18 U.S.C. § 2333 (2000) et seq. after Yaron Ungar, a United States citizen, and his wife, Efrat Ungar, were killed in Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. As part of what was initially enacted as the Antiterrorism Act of 1991 ("ATA"),1 section 2333 provides a cause...

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