BANK MARKAZI, aka THE CENTRAL BANK OF IRAN, Petitioner v. DEBORAH PETERSON, et al., 578 U.S. 212

Summary

HOLDINGS: [1]-22 U.S.C.S. § 8772, which Congress enacted as part of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, did not violate separation of powers by purporting to change the law for, and directing a particular result in, a single pending case; [2]-The statute, which made available for postjudgment execution a set of assets held at a New York bank for the Central Bank of Iran to partially satisfy judgments obtained by over 1,000 victims of terrorist acts sponsored by Iran, did not offend principles protecting the role of the independent Judiciary within the constitutional design.