Steven Pelak is a parter at Holland & Hart, and he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C. for 18 years and in the Justice Department on economic sanction and export control enforcement.
This episode references:
- Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Terrorism Exception
- Anti Terrorism Acts, International Conventions and US law against hostage taking, torture protections, and conventions against hijacking
- Terrorism Risk Insurance Act
- Actions against Foreign States and the Provision of Material Support
- 1952 Tate Letter
- Justice for US victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act
- Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act
- Alien Tort Statute
- Mandatory Victims Restitution Act
- In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 714 F.3d 109 (2d Cir. 2013)
- The Schooner Exchange v. Mcfaddon, 11 U.S. 116 (1812).
- US v. Klein, 80 U.S. 128 (1871).
- Letelier v. Republic of Chile, 488 F.Supp. 665. (D.D.C. 1980).
- First National City bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior de Cuba, 462 U.S. 611 (1983).
- Smith v. Libya, 101 F.3d 239 (2d Cir. 1996). and Rein v. Libya 162 F.3d 748 (2nd Cir. 1998).
- Princz v. Germany, 813 F.Supp. 22 (D.D.C. 1992).
- Hill v. Republic of Iraq, 328 F.3d 680, (D.C. Cir. 2003).
- Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, 566 US __ (2012).
- Alejandre v. Cuba, 42 F. Supp. 2d 1317 (S.D. Fla. 1999).
- WAMAI et al v. REPUBLIC OF SUDAN et al, No. 1:2008cv01349 - Document 55 (D.D.C. 2011)
- Iran cases: Persinger, Roeder, Ewlahi, Weinstein, Campussano, Cicippio-Pueleo, and the ongoing case Fritz vs. Iran
- United States v. ZTE, No. 17-CR-120 (N.D. Tex. 2017) – “Satisfaction of Judgment”
- BNP Paribas fined for sanctions violations
- Report by the Special Master Kenneth Feinberg to U.S. Congress in January 2017 and August 2017