Case regarding sovereign immunity (actions based on statutory rights)

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Owens v. Republic of Sudan

Civil Action No. 01-2244 (JDB), Civil Action No. 08-1349 (JDB), Civil Action No. 08-1361 (JDB), Civil Action No. 08-1377 (JDB), Civil Action No. 08-1380 (JDB), Civil Action No. 10-0356 (JDB)

November 30, 2011.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOHN D. BATES, United States District Judge

Over thirteen years ago, on August 7, 1998, the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were devastated by simultaneous suicide bombings that killed hundreds of people