Simpson v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the theory that “hostage taking” oc- curred under the FSIA because “pursuit of retributive justice entails no form of exchange, nominal or substantive, between [the foreign sovereign] and a third party”
• “The proper question is whether experts in . . . [the] field of foreign policy and terrorism analysis reasonably rely on newspaper articles to gather and analyze information on newsworthy events. The court determines that they do.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).