REPUBLIC OF SUDAN v. OWENS

No. 17-SP-837.

194 A.3d 38 (2018)

REPUBLIC OF SUDAN, Ministry of External Affairs, et al., Appellants, v. James OWENS, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 20, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher M. Curran , with whom Nicole Erb , Claire A. DeLelle , Washington, DC, and Celia A. McLaughlin , were on the brief, for appellants.

Matthew D. McGill , with whom Stuart H. Newberger , Clifton S. Elgarten , Aryeh S. Portnoy , Thomas Fortune Fay , Lochlan F. Shelfer , Steven R. Perles , Edward B. Macallister , Jane Carol Norman , Washington, DC, John Vail , Michael J. Miller , and David J. Dickens , Orange, VA, were on the brief, for appellees.

Karl A. Racine , Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim , Solicitor General at the time the brief was filed, Loren L. AliKhan , Deputy Solicitor General at the time the brief was filed, and Lucy E. Pittman , Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief for the District of Columbia as amicus curiae in support of appellees.

Ellen M. Bublick and George Anhang were on the brief for Law Professors Ellen M. Bublick and Paul T. Hayden as amici curiae in support of appellees.

Before Fisher and Thompson, Associate Judges, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.


Almost simultaneously on August 7, 1998, al Qaeda terrorists detonated powerful truck bombs outside the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing over two hundred people and injuring more than a thousand others. Owens v. Republic of Sudan, 864 F.3d 751

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