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ROEDER v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. Civ.A. 00-3110 EGS.

195 F.Supp.2d 140 (2002)

David M. ROEDER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 18, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernon Thomas Lankford, Jr., Lankford & Coffield, PLLC, Terrance Gilroy Reed, Alexandria, VA, C. Cary Patterson, Jeffrey J. Angelovich, Michael B. Angelovich, Nix, Patterson & Roach, LLP, Texarkana, TX, John C. West, Bethea, Jordan & Griffin, Hilton Head Island, SC, John C. West, Jr., Camden, SC, for plaintiff.

James Jordan Gilligan, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

SULLIVAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs filed this case seeking a belated remedy for the horrible suffering to which they were subjected by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran more than 20 years ago. There is no dispute that members of the plaintiff class were held hostage, and at times tortured, for 444 days after being seized from the United States Embassy in Tehran by Iranian governmental officials. There is also no dispute...

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