US Supreme Court won’t halt $656 million judgment against Palestinians over terror attacks
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to halt $655.5 million in damages that Palestinian authorities were ordered to pay plaintiffs in a US civil lawsuit concerning terror attacks that killed and injured Americans in Israel from 2002 to 2004, during the Second Initifada.Sotomayor denied a request by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to pause the judgment while they appeal a lower court’s decision to revive the case years after it had been dismissed.The lawsuit was filed by victims of attacks in Jerusalem that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more.The attacks took place during the Second Intifada, in which roughly 1,000 Israelis and others were killed in a string of suicide bombings and other terror attacks.The Supreme Court last year upheld a federal law passed in 2019 that allowed claims like those brought by the plaintiffs in the case. US citizens have also filed…
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has declined to halt a $655.5 million judgment against Palestinian authorities. The judgment stems from a US civil lawsuit filed by victims of terror attacks that killed and injured Americans in Israel between 2002 and 2004, during the Second Intifada. Sotomayor denied a request from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to pause the payment while they appeal a lower court’s decision to revive the case. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the judgment in March 2023, following a 2022 Supreme Court decision upholding the 2019 Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, which facilitates such lawsuits.
The money judgment at issue became a legal nullity when … appeals were exhausted in 2018,
the Palestinian organizations argued, stating that enforcing the judgment would cause severe financial harm and destabilize government services in the West Bank.
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