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UNGAR v. PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION

No. 04-2079.

402 F.3d 274 (2005)

Efrat UNGAR et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. The PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 31, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, with whom Lawrence W. Schilling, Deming E. Sherman, and Edwards & Angell, LLP were on brief, for appellants.

David J. Strachman, with whom McIntyre, Tate, Lynch & Holt was on brief, for appellees.

Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Samp, Joel J. Sprayregen, and Jared M. Wayne on consolidated brief for Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation, amici curiae.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises exceptionally important questions of justiciability and sovereignty, emblematic of unsettled political conditions that have plagued the Middle East for many years. In it, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ask us to countermand the district court's refusal to dismiss the action against them. They contend that the case hinges on a nonjusticiable political question and that, at any...

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