Posted on 12/11/2014 2:12:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5
After losing a landmark decision on November 20 allowing them to be tried for terrorism charges in a $1 billion case, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have now filed a very rare appeal to the Second Circuit of courts trying to squash the case.
Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) is leading the legal charge against the PA and PLO. In a press release on Thursday they noted that the appeal, known as a motion for a writ of mandamus, "concerns personal jurisdiction and should have been filed months ago."
"This is a desperate attempt by the Palestinian Authority to stall this long planned trial," said Shurat Hadin Chairperson Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, whose organization is representing 11 American families of terror victims in the case.
The November decision set a New York court date for January in which the Israel-based civil rights organization's lawsuit from 2004 will finally be heard, charging the PA over the involvement of PA and PLO members in seven terror attacks between 2001 and 2004 during the Second Intifada.
Darshan-Leitner added "for over a decade the defendants have tried every tactic in the book to obstruct and avoid their inevitable date with a New York jury which will finally hear the shocking evidence of their involvement in the terror attacks that left so many Americans dead."
"After more than a decade of litigation and the Palestinians filing motion after motion after motion, and dragging these American terror victims through this prolonged emotional experience they should not be allowed to avoid trial for even another moment. Those who lost their children in the Hebrew University cafeteria bombing and other PLO terrorist attacks deserve to finally have their day in court," concluded Darshan-Leitner.
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The Parcheesee Liberation Organization?
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Obama will instruct “his courts” to let his comrade pals off..
Will they still have their Swiss bank accounts?
And...GASP! Organ chord!...what if they discover Mah Jong?
Mrs. Arafat certainly hopes so.
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We tried monopoly with them but they kept on blowing up Park Place.
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As for Risk, there usually is no board left five minutes into the game.
Interesting legal question. If a victorious plaintiff comes to collect, can he seize the assets of the terror organization that the head terrorist already stole, where he died and left it all to his widow, who spent only half so far?
It’s an interesting question to be sure, but one more suited to forensic accountants than to me.
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Personally, I’d be in favor of withdrawing the money, dipping the despicable harpy in honey or molasses, and having her roll in it. Whatever sticks to her is hers. Whatever the plaintiffs can catch is theirs. And then, once that distribution has been completely made and the plaintiffs are at a safe distance, set fire to Suha.
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