Disagreeing with the U.S. Justice Department’s interpretation of international legal procedures, a federal appeals court said the Sudanese government was properly served with papers that led to a $314.7 million judgment in New York for victims of the USS Cole bombing.
Conceding it was a close call, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Thursday that serving Sudan’s foreign minister through its embassy in Washington, D.C. complied with the requirements of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).
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