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  title info:
    title: Suits Against Terrorist States By Victims of Terrorism
  name:
    name part: Library of Congress
    name part: Congressional Research Service.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Provides background on state immunity and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1996, which allows U.S. victims of terrorism to sue certain states responsible for terrorist acts. Details the evolution of the terrorist State exception and subsequent judicial decisions; describes proposals and statutes enacted to help claimants obtain their judgments; sets forth policy and legal arguments for and against those legislative initiatives; describes the decision in the hostages' suit against Iran and Congressional efforts to abolish the Algiers Accords; discusses confiscation of Iraq's assets for use in the reconstruction of Iraq, and summarizes proposed legislation. Provides list of cases covered by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, as amended, and the amount of terrorist state assets currently blocked by the U.S.
  note: Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
  note: CRS Report.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Justice, Administration of
  subject:
    topic: International law
  subject:
    geographic: Iraq
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    title info:
      title: Suits Against Terrorist States By Victims of Terrorism
    name:
      name part: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
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      title: U.S. Congressional Research
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  record info:
    record content source: ProQuest
    record creation date: 101209
    record change date: 20260429173751.4
    record identifier: in00003328493