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1/27/23
Meridian 361 launches Anti-terrorism Act suit against Taliban a/k/a Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
12/20/22
Meridian 361, Perles Law and Sparacino Law launch Anti-terrorism Act suit against Swedish mobile phone service provider Ericsson AB for its provision of material support and resources to al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq and Islamic State.
6/17/22
Meridian 361 launches Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act suit against Islamic Republic of Iran for its material support of Taliban, Haqqani Network and al-Qaeda attacks on U.S. armed forces personnel in Afghanistan.
6/9/22
Meridian 361 successfully executes strategy obtaining order forcing St. Vincent and the Grenadines offshore holding company with downstream South American real estate assets into judicially supervised liquidation in Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, on behalf of Swiss creditors.
4/26/22
Meridian 361 defeats defendants’ motions for summary judgment in contentious Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court personal injury case against elite Mustique Island Resort and Mustique villa owner in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
3/17/22
Meridian 361 launches suit against Islamic Republic of Iran for hostage-taking, 2-year captivity and torture of American Michael White.
2/28/22
Meridian 361, Gibson Dunn, Perles Law Firm and Heideman Nudelman & Kalik launch suit against Union de Banques Arabes et Francaises for assisting Syrian Arab Republic to evade Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act anti-terrorism judgments.
11/22/21
Meridian 361 obtains $136 million judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran for its material support of the January 2018 Taliban siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the May 2015 Taliban attack on the Park Palace Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1/27/21
11th Circuit Court of Appeals vacates a $5.8 million jury award for misappropriation of trade secret in complex cross-border intellectual property litigation, vindicating Meridian 361’s trial strategy below.
9/25/19
Meridian 361 launches lawsuit against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps for their provision of material support and resources to the Taliban and its militant arm the Haqqani Network, and their roles in the January 2018 siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the May 2015 attack on the Park Palace Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2/20/18
Meridian 361 launches lawsuit against the Syrian Arab Republic, President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian Military Intelligence for their provision of material support and resources to terrorist Abu Ayyub al-Masri and the Islamic Sate of Iraq, and their roles in the kidnapping, torture and execution of U.S. Army SSgt Alex Jimenez and Spc Byron W. Fouty in the Iraqi “Triangle of Death”.
11/30/17
F. R. Jenkins, Esq. delivers speech “The Rights of Terror Victims: U.S. Civil Litigation Against State Sponsors of Terrorism” to fellow members of the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple and their guests in Middle Temple Hall.
9/22/17
Meridian 361 successfully defends and obtains final ruling vindicating its client, a U.S. partner in a U.S.-based fund manager servicing a Cayman Islands master-feeder fund structure, in a contentious, 2-year AAA arbitration. Tribunal denied all claims, including fraud, breach of contract, promissory estoppel and breach of implied covenant.
9/13/17
F. R. Jenkins, Esq. joins delegation of fellow members of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in conferences at U.S. Supreme Court, Embassy of the United Kingdom and U.S. Institute of Peace.
8/30/17
Meridian 361 obtains ruling from U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, denying Motion to Dismiss the Alien Tort Statute claims that it filed on behalf of 842 Guatemalan plaintiffs harmed by non-consensual, non-therapeutic human syphilis experiments conducted in Guatemala from 1946-1953. The case, brought against Johns Hopkins University, the Rockefeller Foundation and Bristol-Myers Squibb, will proceed to discovery.
5/15/17
Meridian 361 successfully defends its client, a German manufacturer, against federal and state trademark, federal and state unfair competition, and state deceptive or unfair trade practices claims following jury trial proceedings in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia.
4/13/17
Meridian 361 obtains liability judgment on Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act claims following 3-day trial proceedings in the U.S. District Court, Washington, D.C., against Syrian Arab Republic, President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian Military Intelligence and General Asif Shawkat. The court found that Syriahad supported and sponsored Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaeda in Iraq’s kidnapping, torture and execution of U.S. Army personnel Kristian Menchaca and Matt Maupin, and the assassination of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley. The Court commented in its ruling: “Plaintiffs state that they ‘would like to use this proceeding to send out a very clear message of deterrence’ to those ‘who are contemplating funding or otherwise material[ly] supporting terrorist organizations that would murder United States citizens, particularly United States citizens who are killed in service to the United States.’ The Court hopes that Plaintiffs find some solace in that purpose.”
3/1/16
Meridian 361 wins $347 million judgment against Syria and Syrian Military Intelligence for American victims of the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan.
• Portland Press Herald article
• Middle East Eye article
8/27/15
F. R. Jenkins, Esq. has been inducted into the Edward Thaxter Gignoux Inn of Court. Membership of this prestigious Inn is by invitation only. It is comprised of 60-80 of the top lawyers and jurists in the State of Maine.
4/1/15
Meridian 361 sues Johns Hopkins, Rockefeller Foundation and Bristol-Meyers Squibb on behalf of over 750 Guatemalan nationals who were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases in the late 1940s and early 1950s in non-consensual, non-therapeutic, human experimentation.
11/14/12
F. R. Jenkins, Esq. to Chair Offshore Investment Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Will speak on U.S. sanctions regimes against Syria and Iran, Google's international tax planning structure.
3/21/12
F. R. Jenkins, Esq. delivers speeches to Panamanian bankers, accountants, lawyers and business interests addressing US-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
11/17/11
F. R. Jenkins, Esq. serves as Chairman of the 18th World Offshore Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
4/8/11
F. R. Jenkins, Esq. launches lawsuit against the Syrian Arab Republic, Syrian President Bashar al-Asad and Syrian General ‘Asif Shawkat for their material support and sponsorship of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaeda in Iraq, and their roles in the assassination of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan in 2002, and the kidnapping, torture and public execution of U.S. Army servicemen Kristian Menchaca and Matt Maupin in Iraq.