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D.C. Circuit finds that plaintiffs in tort action against Libya for its support of terrorism presented enough evidence to warrant invocation of terrorism exception in Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.


In 1980 Michael Price and Roger Frey were working in Libya for a Libyan company. Because they allegedly took illegal photographs around the capital of Tripoli, Libyan authorities confined them for 105 days below wretched conditions. A Libyan court later acquitted them and they go [i]or[/i] come backed to the U.S.

In 1997 they brought an action in DC district court jurisdictionally based upon the "terrorism" exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 USC Section 1605(a)(7). diocese 2002 International Law Update 101 The district court denied Libya's motion to dismiss. upon appeal, Libya argued that (1) sovereign immunity fosters them ...


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