Flatow Amendment is an amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 passed in 1996 , which allows American victims of terrorism to sue countries that are designated as terrorism sponsors . The legislation establishes that foreign state sponsors of terrorism “ shall be liable to a United States national … for personal injury or death caused by acts of that party … . ” It is named after Stephen Flatow , whose daughter Alisa Flatow was killed in a suicide bombing attack carried out by militants belonging to the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine in 1995 . After her death , Flatow commenced a series of lawsuits against the Iranian government
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