U.S. v. HOLY LAND FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF AND DEV.

No. 11-10535.

722 F.3d 677 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant v. HOLY LAND FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT, also known as HLF; Shukri Abu Baker; Ghassan Elashi; Mufid Abdulqader; Abdulrahman Odeh, Defendants-Appellees Jenny Rubin; Deborah Rubin; Daniel Miller; Abraham Mendelson; Stuart E. Hersch; Renay Frym; Noam Rozenman; Elena Rozenman; TZVI Rozenman, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 25, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vijay Shanker , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Susan Cowger , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Ranjana Natarajan , University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX, Nancy Hollander, Esq. , Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Ives & Duncan, P.A., Albuquerque, NM 87102-0000, Linda Moreno , Tampa, FL, Mario Pfister Cadeddu, Esq. , Dallas, TX, Gregory Burke Westfall , Hill Gilstrap, P.C., Arlington, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

David J. Strachman, Esq. , Mcintre, Tate & Lynch, L.L.P., Providence, RI 02903-0000, David J. Strachman, Esq., for Appellees.

Stephen J. Landes , Matthew Mark Garrett , Jennifer S. Geyer , Edwards, Wildman & Palmer, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Nathan D. Lewin , Lewin & Lewin, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Stanley Boim and Joyce Boim.

Richard Brian Rosenthal , Miami, FL, for Amicus Curiae Victims of F.A.R.C. Narco-Terrorism in Colombia, Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, Judith G. Janis, Christopher T. Janis, Greer C. Janis, Michael J. Janis and Jonathan N. Janis

Before WIENER, CLEMENT, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.


EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

Appellees ("the Rubins") are victims of a terrorist attack perpetrated by the terrorist group Hamas in 1997 at an outdoor pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. Appellee the Holy Land Foundation ("HLF") is a designated terrorist organization that the Department of the Treasury has found to act for or on behalf of Hamas by serving as its fundraising arm in the United States. After obtaining a judgment against Hamas in the district court for...

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