WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Supreme Court is preventing survivors of a 1997 terrorist
attack from seizing Persian artifacts at a Chicago museum to help pay a
$71.5 million default judgment against Iran.
The
court ruled 8-0 Wednesday against U.S. victims of a Jerusalem suicide
bombing. They want to lay claim to artifacts that were loaned by Iran to
the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute more than 80 years ago.
Justice
Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court that a provision of the Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act does not support the victims' case. That
federal law generally protects foreign countries' property in the U.S.
but makes exceptions when countries provide support to extremist groups.
Source: Yahoo News
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