United States DC Circuit

In an interlocutory appeal in a suit arising from the bombing of a French airliner over Africa, denial in part of defendants' motion to dismiss is affirmed, and the remainder of the appeal is dismissed, where: 1) defendants lacked standing to appeal rulings on service of process and possible imposition of punitive damages on individual defendants who were not parties to the appeal; and 2) the district court had subject-matter jurisdiction over the claims under the "terrorism exception" to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2008
• Decided 07/25/2008
• Published 07/25/2008

Judges

• Before:  SENTELLE, Chief Judge, and GINSBURG and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arman Dabiri argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher B. Kende argued the cause and filed the brief for appellee.