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GOLDBERG-BOTVIN v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Civil No. 12-1292 (RCL).

938 F.Supp.2d 1 (2013)

Julie GOLDBERG-BOTVIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 4, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noel Jason Nudelman, Tracy Reichman Kalik, Richard D. Heideman, Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, P.C., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

This action against the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran") arises from an act of state-sponsored terrorism. The decedent, a fourteen-year-old United States citizen named Yael Botvin, was killed in a September 4, 1997, suicide bombing in the crowded pedestrian mall on Ben Yehuda Street in downtown Jerusalem, Israel, by Hamas. In a previous action under the former state-sponsored terrorism exception...

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