Rimkus v. Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a court’s “ability to take notice of adjudicative facts extends to judicial notice of court records in related proceedings”
• explaining that plaintiff failed to plead a theory of relief when he alleged only that his son died and defendants were responsible for his son’s death
• finding that the IRGC “constitute[s] [an] integral part[] of Iran’s political structure, and thus constitute[s] a foreign state for [FSIA] purposes”
• finding that the IRGC “constitute[s] [an] integral part[] of Iran’s political structure, and thus constitute[s] a foreign state for [FSIA] purposes”
• allowing a “claim” for punitive damages to proceed because it was supported by sufficiently specific allegations of a cause of action under section 1605A
• explaining need for plaintiffs “ ‘to prove a theory of liability under which defendants cause the requisite injury or death’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).