Supreme Court Takes Up Terror-Support Appeal Against Arab Bank

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April 3, 2017
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether foreigners whose families were maimed or killed in attacks on Israel can sue Arab Bank and other institutions they say supported terrorism.

Though U.S. citizen victims have held Arab Bank liable for suicide bombings on Israeli civilians between 2000 and 2004, noncitizen families have been less successful in U.S. courts.

In addition to Elsner, the families will be represented at the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Fisher of Stanford Law School and Mark Werbner of Sayles Werbner.

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