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The Newest Inductee into the Stupid Ideas Hall of Fame

Posted by at 9:08 am on May 9, 2010
Category: Criminal Penalties • Iran Sanctions
Majid Kakavand
ABOVE: Majid Kakavand

So once Majid Kakavand hot-footed it back into Iran, after French authorities denied the United States government’s request for his extradition from France, this was pretty much the first thing out of his mouth

Given that I have spent fourteen months in jail on false charges, it is my legal right to sue US authorities as soon as possible.

I can just hear the folks in Department of Justice saying “bring it on” when they heard Kakavand’s threat. “Please, Majid, sue us,” they might have said, “because the minute you set foot in the United States to testify, we’ll have a little, er, surprise for you. It’s this thing called an arrest warrant.”

Or maybe this rocket scientist is thinking of suing the U.S. officials in an Iranian court and then trying to have the Iranian judgment enforced in a U.S. court. When pigs fly, as they say.

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One Comment:

Or perhaps he’ll sue in another jurisdiction in which the US has assets or in a jurisdiction which has agreements for the enforcement of civil judgments with yet other jurisdictions that have US assets (Federal Reserve accounts, perhaps). Given that the US has declared a number of unilateral exceptions to foreign sovereign immunity he just might have a cognizable argument that the US is estopped from claiming sovereign immunity. Even if he sued in the US, in a civil case, he might not even have to appear personally: At the conclusion of discovery, there might well be enough evidence to support a motion for summary judgment, assuming he can survive a 12(b)(6) motion.

Comment by Hillbilly on May 10th, 2010 @ 4:55 pm