Topic: Royce Lamberth

June 20, 2013
9:57 pm

Moscow's Red Square (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)

Russia steadfast in refusal to hand over historical Chabad papers

US judge says Moscow acting like a ‘scofflaw’ and an ‘outlaw’ by keeping trove of religious documents

By Frederic J. Frommer

January 17, 2013
7:45 pm

Moscow's Red Square (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)

Russia angry over US fines for Jewish collection

US judge rules Moscow should pay the penalty until it complies with 2010 order to return tens of thousands of religious books

January 16, 2013
9:45 pm

Judge fines Russia for not returning Chabad collection

US State Department opposed penalty, saying it will set back a deal on the contested religious materials

December 20, 2012
7:43 pm

US families win $338 million lawsuit against Syria

Case concerns biblical archaeologists taken hostage in 1991 while searching for Noah’s Ark

September 10, 2012
2:05 pm

Moscow's Red Square (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)

US opposes Chabad bid to fine Russia for failing to return Jewish archives

In 2010, a NYC court ruled that Russia must return books and manuscripts, but it has refused to do so

By Frederic J. Frommer

March 31, 2012
7:53 am

The explosion at the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. (photo credit: US Marines, Wikimedia Commons)

Judge awards $2.2 billion to victims of Beirut attack on Marines

Plaintiffs who sued Iran over attack hope frozen Iranian assets in US can be collected; award is third in two weeks