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D.C. Circuit Interpretation of Scope of FSIA "Flatow Amendment"

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 28U.S.C. §§1330,1441(d), 1602-1611 (2000).

2 28 U.S.C. §1605 note (2000).

3 For a review of cases from 1999 to 2001, as well as legislative efforts to secure compensation for judgment holders,see Sean, D. Murphy, United States Practice In International Law: 1999-2001, at 7084 (2002)Google Scholar. For a review of such cases in 2002, see Sean, D. Murphy, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 96 AJIL 964 -67 (2002)Google Scholar. For new legislation adopted in 2000 and 2002 addressed at enforcing such judgments against blocked assets, and for related cases, see Sean, D. Murphy, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 97 AJIL 187 & 966 (2003)Google Scholar.

4 Cicippio v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 18 F.Supp.2d 62, 64, 70 (D.D.C. 1998).

5 Cicippio-Puleo v. Islamic Republic of Iran, Civ. No. 01-1496, slip op. at 2 (D.D.C. June 21, 2002).

6 Cicippio-Puleo v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 353 F.3d 1024, 1031 (D.C. Cir. 2004). For an earlier statement by the United States on this question in a suit by U.S. hostages against Iran, see Sean, D. Murphy, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 96 AJIL 463 (2002)Google Scholar.

7 353 F.3d at 1033-34.

8 Id. at 1036.