Murphy v. Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

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• holding that refusal of service under Section 1608(a)(3) meant service was done “to no avail”
• holding that “[i]t is clear . . . that Iran has plenary control of MOIS” and thus MOIS is “not a person entitled to Fifth Amendment” protections
• finding that Iran’s Ministry of Information and Security was considered a political subdivision of Iran and therefore covered by FSIA
• using the total-expenditures multiplicand for claims arising from the Beirut bombing where 241 Americans were killed
• adopting Special Master’s recommended awards on pain and suffering, including an upward adjustment to one victim, in their entirety
• describing an immediate family member’s intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress claim in 5 the state-sponsored-terrorism context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).