United States Second Circuit

In case stemming from a default judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran arising from its provision of training and material support to the group responsible for a 1997 terrorist bombing in Israel in which individual defendants or their relatives were injured, assets held in accounts with U.S. bank interpleader-plaintiff on behalf of Iranian bank interpleader-defendant are not blocked assets and are not subject to attachment by individual interpleader-defendants under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/11/2007
• Published 04/11/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before FEINBERG, SOTOMAYOR, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David Strachman (Robert J. Tolchin, Jaroslawicz & Jaros, on the brief), McIntyre, Tate & Lynch, LLP, Providence, Rhode Island, for interpleader-defendants-appellants., John D. Winter (Wendy K. Akbar, on the brief), Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, New York, New York, for interpleader-defendant-appellee Bank Melli Iran New York Representative Office., Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Lara K. Eshkenazi, Beth E. Goldman, on the brief), New York, New York, for amicus curiae United States of America in support of interpleader-defendant-appellee Bank Melli Iran New York Representative Office.