The black letter law and articles in this episode are:
Judgement in Colvin v. Syrian Arab Republic
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2016cv1423-59
“U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin” on NPR, featuring a picture of Colvin and her distinctive eyepatch
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690325322/u-s-court-orders-syria-to-pay-300-million-for-killing-of-journalist-marie-colvin
Letelier v. Republic of Chile, 488 F. Supp. 655 (D.D.C 1980)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/488/665/1400196/
Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 623 F. Supp. 246 (D.D.C. 1985), brought on behalf of Raoul Wallenburg
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/623/246/1514345/
Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 736 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1990), default judgement vacated
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/736/1/1884255/
28 USC 1605A (a) 1, the Terrorism Exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1605A
Settlement with the PLO in the Leon Klinghoffer case
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/01/19/plo-agrees-to-settlement-of-lawsuit-over-achille-lauro-slaying/a3d42bb7-8b48-43a1-a081-1aae3b055318/
State Sponsors of Terrorism List
https://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm
Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 999 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1999)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/999/1/2267352/
Algiers Accords of 1981
http://www.parstimes.com/history/algiers_accords.pdf
Mark Zaid is the managing partner of The Law Offices of Mark Zaid
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