Bringing Suit Against Syria with Mark Zaid

The black letter law and articles in this episode are: Judgement in Colvin v. Syrian Arab Republic https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2016cv1423-59 “U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin” on NPR, featuring a picture of Colvin and her distinctive eyepatch https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690325322/u-s-court-orders-syria-to-pay-300-million-for-killing-of-journalist-marie-colvin Letelier v. Republic of Chile, 488 F. Supp. 655 (D.D.C 1980) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/488/665/1400196/ Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 623 F. Supp. 246 (D.D.C. 1985), brought on behalf of Raoul Wallenburg https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/623/246/1514345/ Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 736 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1990), default judgement vacated https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/736/1/1884255/ 28 USC 1605A (a) 1, the Terrorism Exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1605A Settlement with the PLO in the Leon Klinghoffer case https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/01/19/plo-agrees-to-settlement-of-lawsuit-over-achille-lauro-slaying/a3d42bb7-8b48-43a1-a081-1aae3b055318/ State Sponsors of Terrorism List https://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 999 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1999) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/999/1/2267352/ Algiers Accords of 1981 http://www.parstimes.com/history/algiers_accords.pdf Mark Zaid is the managing partner of The Law Offices of Mark Zaid https://markzaid.com/zaid/