Acree v. Republic of Iraq
Acree v. Republic of Iraq, 370 F.3d 41 (D.C. Cir. 2004), was a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. U.S. military personnel who had been tortured by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War sued for damages, arguing that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) made state sponsors of terror liable. Iraq never contested the lawsuit, but the U.S. federal government intervened. The Court of Appeals ultimately decided against the plaintiffs, saying that the FSIA did not create new causes of action against foreign states. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the plaintiffs' appeal.
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Acree v. Republic of Iraq
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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Iraq
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