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Hagerman v. Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Full Name: Hagerman v. Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, No. 03 Civ. 1579 (D.D.C.)

The firm recovered more than $40 million as part of historic $2.7 billion settlement with the government of Libya for the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. This litigation created the terrorist exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA).

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