FULD v. PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION

Docket Nos. 22-76-cv (L), 22-496-cv (Con) August Term 2022.

82 F.4th 74 (2023)

Miriam FULD, individually, as personal representative and administrator of the Estate of Ari Yoel Fuld, Deceased, and as natural guardian of Plaintiff Natan Shai Fuld, Natan Shai Fuld, Minor, by his next friend and guardian Miriam Fuld, Naomi Fuld, Tamar Gila Fuld, and Eliezer Yakir Fuld, Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant, v. The PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION and The Palestinian Authority (a/k/a "The Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority," and/or "The Palestinian Council," and/or "The Palestinian National Authority"), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 8, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allon Kedem , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Kent A. Yalowitz , Avishai D. Don , David C. Russell , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, Dirk C. Phillips , Stephen K. Wirth , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C., Jeffrey Fleischmann , The Law Office of Jeffrey Fleischmann, P.C., New York, NY, Samuel Silverman , The Silverman Law Firm PLLC, New City, NY, 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 Sen. Charles E. Grassley , Sen. Richard Blumenthal , Rep. Jerrold Nadler , Rep. Claudia Tenney , Rep. Bradley E. Schneider , Sen. James Lankford , Sen. Marco Rubio , Rep. Kathleen Rice , Rep. Lee Zeldin , Rep. Theodore Deutch , and Rep. 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.

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


The plaintiffs, several family members of a United States citizen killed in an overseas terrorist attack, appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Furman, J.) dismissing their claims against the Palestine Liberation Organization ("PLO") and the...

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