Gates v. Syrian Arab Republic

How courts have described this case

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

• awarding $300 million in punitive damages for the torture and beheadings of two American contractors
• involving Syria’s material support of AQI, which released a graphic video of the gruesome decapitation of two American citizens
• The plaintiff “must 11 present a legally sufficient prima facie case, i.e., a legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find for plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).