Ellerman v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that Iran’s provision of “weaponry, munitions, training, and millions of dollars in financial support” to Hamas “was a substantial factor in the events that led to” Hamas’s attack on plaintiffs
• awarding baseline solatium damages to siblings of a terrorist victim who had a “large and loving family”
• section 1605A(c) “does not provide guidance on the substantive bases for liability to determine Plaintiffs’ entitlement to damages”
• “[A]cts of terrorism are sufficiently extreme and outrageous to demonstrate that they are intended to inflict severe emotional harm on even those persons who are not present during the act.”
• “A decedent’s heirs at law, acting through the decedent’s estate, may bring a wrongful death action under section 1605A(c) to seek compensation for economic losses which result from decedent’s premature death.”
• Hamas attack killed eight Israeli students

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).