RUBIN v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Civil Action No. 06-11053-GAO.

541 F.Supp.2d 416 (2008)

Jenny RUBIN, et al., Plaintiffs-Judgment Creditors, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants-Judgment Debtors, v. Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University, et al., Trustee Process Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 31, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Georgia J. Asimakopoulos, Edward V. Colbert, III, Richard J. Grahn, Looney & Grossman, LLP, Boston, MA, David J. Strachman, Mclntyre, Tate, Lynch & Holt, Providence, RI, for Jenny Rubin.

Courtney Amber Clark, Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, Joshua A. Doan, William D. Iverson, Jason M. Knott, Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, DC, Simon J. Frankel, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA, for Museum of Fine Arts.

Mark C. Fleming, Timothy R. Shannon, WilmerHale LLP, Boston, MA, Paul R.Q. Wolfson, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, for Harvard University.


ORDER

O'TOOLE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, survivors of a terrorist attack by Hamas, sued the Islamic Republic of Iran in the District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that Iran was liable for the attacks because it provided material support to Hamas. The plaintiffs obtained a default judgment which included $71.5 million in compensatory damages and $37.5 million in punitive damages. The plaintiffs registered their judgment with this...

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