WALDMAN v. PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION

Docket Nos. 15-3135-cv (L), 15-3151-cv (XAP), 22-1060-cv (Con) August Term 2022.

82 F.4th 64 (2023)

Eva WALDMAN, Revital Bauer, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Plaintiffs Yehonathon Bauer, Binyamin Bauer, Daniel Bauer and Yehuda Bauer, Shaul Mandelkorn, Nurit Mandelkorn, Oz Joseph Guetta, Minor, By His Next Friend and Guardian Varda Guetta, Varda Guetta, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Plaintiff Oz Joseph Guetta, Norman Gritz, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Gritz, Mark I. Sokolow, Individually and as a Natural Guardian of Plaintiff Jamie A. Sokolow, Rena M. Sokolow, Individually and as a Natural Guardian of Plaintiff Jaime A. Sokolow, Jamie A. Sokolow, Minor, By Her Next Friends and Guardian Mark I. Sokolow and Rena M. Sokolow, Lauren M. Sokolow, Elana R. Sokolow, Shayna Eileen Gould, Ronald Allan Gould, Elise Janet Gould, Jessica Rine, Shmuel Waldman, Henna Novack Waldman, Morris Waldman, Alan J. Bauer, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Plaintiffs Yehonathon Bauer, Binyamin Bauer, Daniel Bauer and Yehuda Bauer, Yehonathon Bauer, Minor, By His Next Friend and Guardians Dr. Alan J. Bauer and Revital Bauer, Binyamin Bauer, Minor, By His Next Friend and Guardians Dr. Alan J. Bauer and Revital Bauer, Daniel Bauer, Minor, By His Next Friend and Guardians Dr. Alan J. Bauer and Revital Bauer, Yehuda Bauer, Minor, By His Next Friend and Guardians Dr. Alan J. Bauer and Revital Bauer, Rabbi Leonard Mandelkorn, Katherine Baker, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Blutstein, Rebekah Blutstein, Richard Blutstein, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Blutstein, Larry Carter, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Diane ("Dina") Carter, Shaun Coffel, Dianne Coulter Miller, Robert L Coulter, Jr., Robert L. Coulter, Sr., Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Janis Ruth Coulter, Chana Bracha Goldberg, Minor, By Her Next Friend and Guardian Karen Goldberg, Eliezer Simcha Goldberg, Minor, By Her Next Friend and Guardian Karen Goldberg, Esther Zahava Goldberg, Minor, By Her Next Friend and Guardian Karen Goldberg, Karen Goldberg, Individually, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stuart Scott Goldberg/Natural Guardian of Plaintiffs Chana Bracha Goldberg, Esther Zahava Goldberg, Yitzhak Shalom Goldberg, Shoshana Malka Goldberg, Eliezer Simcha Goldberg, Yaakov Moshe Goldberg, Tzvi Yehoshua Goldberg, Shoshana Malka Goldberg, Minor, By Her Next Friend and Guardian Karen Goldberg, Tzvi Yehoshua Goldberg, Minor, By Her Next Friend and Guardian Karen Goldberg, Yaakov Moshe Goldberg, Minor, By Her Next Friend and Guardian Karen Goldberg, Yitzhak Shalom Goldberg, Minor, By Her Next Friend and Guardian Karen Goldberg, Nevenka Gritz, Sole Heir of Norman Gritz, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant, v. PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION, Palestinian Authority, aka Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority and/or Palestinian Council and/or Palestinian National Authority, Defendants-Appellees, Yasser Arafat, Marwin Bin Khatib Barghouti, Ahmed Taleb Mustapha Barghouti, aka Al-Faransi, Nasser Mahmoud Ahmed Aweis, Majid Al-Masri, aka Abu Mojahed, Mahmoud Al-Titi, Mohammed Abdel Rahman Salam Masalah, aka Abu Satkhah, Faras Sadak Mohammed Ghanem, aka Hitawi, Mohammed Sami Ibrahim Abdullah, Estate of Said Ramadan, Deceased, Abdel Karim Ratab Yunis Aweis, Nasser Jamal Mousa Shawish, Toufik Tirawi, Hussein Al-Shaykh, Sana'a Muhammed Shehadeh, Kaira Said Ali Sadi, Estate of Mohammed Hashaika, Deceased, Munzar Mahmoud Khalil Noor, Estate of Wafa Idris, Deceased, Estate of Mazan Faritach, Deceased, Estate of Muhanad Abu Halawa, Deceased, John Does, 1-99, Hassan Abdel Rahman, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 8, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent A. Yalowitz , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY ( Avishai D. Don , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, Allon Kedem , Dirk C. Phillips , Stephen K. Wirth , Bailey M. Roe , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Mitchell R. Berger , Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Gassan A. Baloul , Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Benjamin H. Torrance , Assistant United States Attorney, Of Counsel for Damian Williams , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY ( Brian M. Boynton , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Sharon Swingle , Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Intervenor-Appellant United States of America.

Tejinder Singh , Sparacino PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Abraham D. Sofaer and Louis J. Freeh in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants and Intervenor-Appellant.

J. Carl Cecere , Cecere PC, Dallas, TX, for Amici Curiae Senators and Representatives Charles E. Grassley, Jerrold Nadler, Richard Blumenthal, James Lankford, Sheldon Whitehouse, Kathleen Rice, Bradley E. Schneider, and Grace Meng in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants and Intervenor Appellant.

Joshua E. Abraham , Abraham Esq. PLLC, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Constitutional Law Scholars Philip C. Bobbitt, Michael C. Dorf, and H. Jefferson Powell in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Dina Gielchinsky , Osen LLC, Hackensack, NJ, for Amici Curiae Organizations Providing Support to Victims of Terror in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Tad Thomas , Jeffrey R. White , American Association for Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae American Association for Justice in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Before: Leval and Bianco, Circuit Judges, and Koeltl, District Judge.


The plaintiffs, a group of United States citizens injured during terror attacks in Israel and the estates or survivors of United States citizens killed in such attacks, brought this action against the Palestine Liberation Organization ("PLO") and the Palestinian Authority ("PA") pursuant to the Anti-Terrorism Act ("ATA"), 18 U.S.C. § 2333...

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