A legal malpractice case brought by the estate of Yael Botvin, who was killed by Hamas suicide bombers in 1997, has been remanded back to federal district court by a federal appeals court. The decision came after the DC Circuit reversed the dismissal of the case, emphasizing that the district court judge required “too much specificity” on the issue of foreseeability.
The Botvin estate had previously won default judgments against the Iranian government for aiding Hamas in carrying out the attack, recovering approximately $2.8 million from a U.S. fund designated for victims of state-sponsored terrorism. However, the plaintiffs argue that their recovery could have been significantly higher had they been able to participate in a 2012 …
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