Posted on 04/13/2016 4:11:55 AM PDT by SJackson
The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization on Tuesday urged a U.S. appeals court to toss a more than $655 million award won by a group of American families who accused them of supporting terrorist attacks in Israel.
A lawyer for the Palestinian Authority and the PLO, the government and diplomatic representative of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, argued to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that the case should never have reached trial.
A U.S. jury in 2015 found the defendants liable under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act in a case that could bolster efforts by Americans to use the law to hold foreign entities responsible in U.S. courts for overseas attacks.
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They shouldn't worry, the Obama administration will make sure than, like other Palestinian and Iranian victims of terror who have won judgements in the US court system, the judgements will remain unpaid.
Of course.
“the Obama administration will make sure that, like other Palestinian and Iranian victims of terror who have won judgments in the US court system, the judgments will remain unpaid. “
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