Elahi v. Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Flatow Amendment creates a cause of action against a foreign state
• noting that section 1605(a)(7) “merely waived the sovereign immunity of state sponsors of terrorism[,]” it did not create a cause of action against them.
• finding that the cost of the burial plot, the gravestone, and cost of travel were \appropriately incurred and should be recovered as part of the compensatory damage award\
• describing Iran’s early efforts “to eliminate any effective opposition to the clerical regime by engaging in the widespread assassination of dissidents both within Iran and abroad”
• awarding $1 million in pain and suffering damages to the estate of a plaintiff whose “suffering lasted a very brief period of time”
• “[T]he federal venue statute provides that actions against a foreign state and a state’s agent or instrumentality may be brought in the (1

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