Surette v. Islamic Republic of Iran

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• finding that CIA agent William Buckley was “tortured” within the meaning of the FSIA when enduring similar conditions to those described here
• noting that “the FSIA expressly exempts a foreign state from liability for punitive damages, but permits punitive damages to be assessed against an ‘agency or instrumentality’ of a foreign state”
• finding that CIA agent William Buckley was “tortured” within the meaning of the FSIA when enduring similar conditions to those described here
• finding that woman who had lived with victim for over 20 years in bond recognized by family and colleagues as equivalent to marriage could recover for IIED despite not being legally married
• finding that woman who had lived with victim for over 20 years in bond recognized by family and colleagues as equivalent to marriage could recover for IIED despite not being legally married
• making a similar inference about Buckley, who was also murdered and, at times, held in the same facilities as Anderson, Cicippio, and Sutherland

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).