United States First Circuit

Following default judgment against defendant-Iran for providing material support to Hamas' terrorist attack, judgment dissolving attachments of property claimed to be owned by Iran, but held by defendants Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University, is affirmed, where: 1) plaintiffs failed to raise the argument of section 1610(g)of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act; 2) the antiquities are not "contested," where Iran itself has not claimed an interest in the assets, and thus 3) cannot qualify as "blocked assets" under Terrorism Risk Insurance Act so the antiquities are not attachable under that statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/27/2013
• Published 02/27/2013

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• United States First Circuit

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