( March 23, 2026, 12:49 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In a multidistrict litigation that has spanned more than 20 years, a federal judge in New York adopted a magistrate’s report recommending that the court deny without prejudice the plaintiffs’ outstanding requests for additional damages in their lawsuit alleging that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism that provided material support to Al Qaeda for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; certify all of the default judgments against Iran as final judgments nunc pro tunc to their filing date; and immediately process the requests to certify the judgments against Iran for registration in another New York district court where the U.S. government has recently seized more than $11 billion in Bitcoin and related proceeds that are allegedly assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran....