District Court, District of Columbia May 6, 2016, Civil Action No. 2011-0805 (Ashraf-Hassan v. Embassy of France)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SAIMA ASHRAF-HASSAN,

Plaintiff,

v. Civil Action No. 11-805 (JEB)

EMBASSY OF FRANCE,

Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century mathematician and philosopher, once opined,

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.