Bluth v. Islamic Republic of Iran

                                UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                                FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA



NETHANIAL CHAIM BLUTH, et al.,:

                    Plaintiffs,

     v.                                                      Civil Action No. 12-250 (GK)

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN,
     et al.

                   Defendants.


                                         Memorandum 0pinion

     On        February         13,      2012,        ten    members    of   the   Bl'uth      family

("Plaintiffs" or "the Bluths") filed a Complaint alleging that the

Islamic Republic of Iran, the Iranian Ministry of Information and

Security,           and   the    Iranian         Revolutionary         Guard     Corps    ("Iranian

Defendants") are liable under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

("FSIA"), 28 U.S.C.             §   1605A, for Plaintiffs' physical and emotional

injuries arising from a terrorist attack by Hamas directed at a

classroom full of students studying Torah on March 7,                                    2002. Am.

Compl.