Report request: I am a paralegal assisting a lawyer advocating for a Ukrainian family whose loved one died in the Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS 752.
I need to provide a report on how courts have ruled on claims filed against Iran’s targeting of Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS 752 inside Iran’s airspace. The report should include court outcomes, including dismissals and damage awards.

Assessment questions and gold answers:
question_text: When was a plane of Ukrainian International Airlines shot down by the Iranian military over Tehran?
gold_answers: 2020
January 2020
question_text: How many people did the plane crash kill?
gold_answers: 176
question_text: How many crash victims were Canadian citizens?
gold_answers: 138
question_text: How did Iran's government explain the reason for the plane crash?
gold_answers: As a mistake
As a catastrophic mistake
question_text: Which court ruled in 2021 that Iran must pay damages to families of the deceased?
gold_answers: The Supreme Court of the Canadian province of Ontario
question_text: Whom did the families of the deceased sue in the Supreme Court of the Canadian province of Ontario?
gold_answers: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Top commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Leaders of the Islamic State
question_text: What was the amount of the compensation sought at the time of filing the lawsuit at the Supreme Court of Ontario by the families of those killed in the plane crash??
gold_answers: $1.2 billion
question_text: What did the Ontario Supreme Court classify the shooting down of Flight 752 as in its ruling?
gold_answers: An act of terrorism
question_text: Whose opinion was the Ontario Supreme Court's decision based on?
gold_answers: Experts
Two experts
question_text: What did an expert in the Ontario Supreme court conclude about the actions of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards?
gold_answers: aware of the civilian nature of the aircraft
question_text: What did an expert in the Ontario Supreme court conclude about the actions of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards?
gold_answers: aimed to destroy the aircraft
deliberately shot down the aircraft
question_text: Based on the Ontario Supreme Court ruling, against whom did Canadian lawyers file a class action lawsuit in connection with the plane crash?
gold_answers: Iranian authorities
question_text: What amount of reparations did Canadian lawyers seek in the class action lawsuit against the Iranian authorities?
gold_answers: 1.5 billion Canadian dollars
1.1 billion US dollars
question_text: Why was the name of the lead plaintiff withheld in the class action lawsuit against Iranian authorities?
gold_answers: a risk of persecution for plaintiff's family in Iran
question_text: Why did Iranian authorities state the Ontario Supreme Court had no jurisdiction over the shooting of the Ukrainian plane by Iranian military?
gold_answers: The downing of the aircraft occurred outside of Canada
question_text: According to a 2012 Canadian law, to which foreign countries does Canadian jurisdiction apply?
gold_answers: applies to countries designated as “foreign state sponsors of terrorism”
question_text: Why does Canadian jurisdiction apply to Iran?
gold_answers: Iran is on its list of "foreign state sponsors of terrorism"
question_text: What makes seeking reparations from Iran a lengthy and complex process for Canada?
gold_answers: Canada not having diplomatic relations with Iran
question_text: What was the reaction of the Iranian Foreign Minister to the Canadian lawyers’ demands for payments in their class action lawsuit?
gold_answers: the Iranian Foreign Minister rejected the Canadian lawyers’ demands
question_text: Why did the Iranian Foreign Minister reject the demands for payments from the Canadian lawyers?
gold_answers: on the grounds of the demands having no basis