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MASSIE v. GOVT. OF DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S OF KOREA

Civil Action No. 06-00749 (HHK).

592 F.Supp.2d 57 (2008)

William Thomas MASSIE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The GOVERNMENT OF the DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 30, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Sweeney, II, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, IN, Karen A. McGee, Richard Henry Streeter, Barnes & Thornburg, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

MEMORANDUM

HENRY H. KENNEDY, JR., District Judge.

This action is brought pursuant to the "terrorism exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(7) ("FSIA"), and arises from the kidnaping, imprisonment and torture of United States citizens who were aboard the USS Pueblo ("Pueblo") when the vessel was captured by agents of the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("North Korea") in January 1968. Plaintiffs...

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