Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2018
On February 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Seventh Circuit's decision in the case of Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, concluding that 28 U.S.C. §1610(g) does not provide a freestanding basis for parties holding a §1605A judgment to attach and execute against the property of a foreign state. Instead, §1610(g) may be used to identify property that would be available for attachment and execution to satisfy a §1605A judgment, but a separate provision within §1610 must first apply to overcome execution immunity.
1 Campuzano v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 281 F.Supp.2d 258, 261 (D.D.C. 2003).
2 Id.
3 Id. at 261–62.
4 Id. at 272–77.
5 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2005 WL 670770 (D.D.C. 2005), at *1.
6 See Pls.’ Consol. Mem. of Law (Docket #105) at 5, Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, Case No. 03-CV-9370 (N.D. Ill. 2005).
7 Id. at 5 & nn.3, 4.
8 Rubin v. The Islamic Republic of Iran, 637 F.3d 783, 785 (7th Cir. 2011).
9 Rubin v. The Islamic Republic of Iran, 456 F.Supp.2d 228, 230 (D. Mass. 2006).
10 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. §§1602–1611.
11 Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA), Pub. L. No. 107–297, §201(a).
12 Rubin, 637 F.3d at 787.
13 Id. at 787–88.
14 Id. at 788.
15 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2007 WL 1169701 (N.D. Ill. 2007), at *2.
16 Id.
17 Id. at *14.
18 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2007 WL 2219105 (N.D. Ill. 2007), at *6.
19 Rubin, 637 F.3d at 784.
20 Id. at 794, 801.
21 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 133 S.Ct. 23 (2012).
22 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 33 F.Supp.3d 1003, 1007 (N.D. Ill. 2014).
23 Id. at 1008–11.
24 Id. at 1013–14.
25 Id. at 1015–16.
26 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 830 F.3d 470, 474 (7th Cir. 2016).
27 Id.
28 Id.
29 Bennett v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 825 F.3d 949, 959 (9th Cir. 2016).
30 Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 583 U. S. __ (2018), at *2.
31 Id.
32 Id. at *11.
33 Id. at *5.