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| Winston Protects Antiquities from Sale in Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Case |
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Winston & Strawn (Pro Bono)
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| Winston & Strawn won a major appellate victory in the Seventh Circuit involving the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and artifacts in the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. The case arose out of proceedings in which victims of a 1997 terrorist attack in Jerusalem sued Iran and won a $71 million dollar default judgment. To collect on that judgment, the plaintiffs initiated attachment proceedings against three collections of Persian artifacts in Chicago. Reversing a lower court's ruling, the Seventh Circuit held that the FSIA makes sovereign property presumptively immune from attachment. |
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