United States Ninth Circuit

In a case arising from intervenor's attempt to collect on a default judgment he holds against Iran based on its alleged assassination of his brother in France, a judgment allowing intervenor to attach a judgment in favor of plaintiff-Iranian ministry in a contract dispute is affirmed but on the alternative ground that the judgment is subject to attachment under section 201 of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA).

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/26/2007
• Decided 05/30/2007
• Published 05/30/2007

Judges

• Before:  B. FLETCHER, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David J. Bederman, Law Office of David J. Bederman, Esq., Atlanta, GA (argued), Anthony J. Van Patten, Glendale, CA, Mina Amassi, Los Altos, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Lewis S. Yelin, Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC (argued), Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney, Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Litigation Counsel, for United States as amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan R. Mook, DiMuro Ginsberg, P.C., Alexandria, VA (argued), Philip J. Hirschkop, Hirschkop & Assoc., P.C., Alexandria, VA, for the intervenor-appellee.