US top court declines to hear Sept. 11 case against banks
REUTERS
Published — Tuesday 1 July 2014
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme
Court on Monday left intact a lower court ruling that barred victims of the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York from pursuing
claims against banks they accused of indirectly helping militants.
The high court rejected an appeal
filed by the victims following an April 2013 ruling by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals that complaints against banks and
entities accused of indirectly aiding the perpetrators could be dismissed.
Those victims included family members of nearly 3,000 people who died in the
attacks that destroyed the World
Trade Center.
The bank defendants dismissed by
the ruling include Al Rajhi Bank, Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust, Dallah Al Baraka
Group LLC and Saudi American Bank, now known as Samba Financial Group.
Separately, the appeals court also dismissed several individuals and companies
from the case.
The appeals court said allegations
against the banks over material support for terrorism could go ahead if there
was a more direct relationship between the bank and a particular militant
action.
The case before the high court is
just one element of the multi-district litigation filed by victims against a
wide range of defendants. The attacks were orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden
under the auspices of the Al-Qaeda militant group. The US military killed Bin Laden in Pakistan in
2011.
The administration of President Barack Obama urged the court not to
take the case.
The case is In re: Terrorist
Attacks on September 11, 2001, US Supreme Court, 13-318.
In a related case, the court
declined to hear an appeal filed by Saudi Arabia’s government objecting to a lower
court decision to revise the Sept. 11 victims’ lawsuit against it for alleged
links with the attacks. The case is Saudi Arabia v. Federal Insurance
Company, et al, US Supreme Court, No. 13-1146.
Saudi
Arabia
Abdallah
Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud is the king of Saudi Arabia,
and a benefactor for the Middle East
Policy Council.
Note: Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. was the president of the Middle
East Policy Council, the U.S.
ambassador for Saudi Arabia, the chairman nominee at the National Intelligence Council for the Barack Obama administration, is a
director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and the Human Rights
First.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), the
Human Rights First, and the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the
president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Harold
H. Koh was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a
director at Human Rights First, and
a legal adviser at the U.S. Department
of State for the Barack Obama
administration.
Kenneth R.
Feinberg is a director at Human
Rights First, and was the special master for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
James D. Zirin was
a director at Human Rights First, and
is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Mark A. Angelson
was a director at Human Rights First,
and a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a member of
the Belizean Grove.
Belizean_Grove
is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
Sonia Sotomayor
was a member of the Belizean Grove, is
a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the 2nd Circuit, lecturer-in-law at the Columbia Law School, and Jose
A. Cabranes is her mentor.
Merit
E. Janow is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and a professor at the Columbia
Law School.
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is Sonia Sotomayor’s mentor, a judge
for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
2nd Circuit, and was a trustee at Columbia University.
Ann
F. Kaplan is a trustee at Columbia University,
and a member of the Belizean Grove.
Robert
Legvold is a professor emeritus at Columbia University,
and was a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), was the chairman
nominee at the National Intelligence
Council for the Barack Obama
administration, a U.S.
ambassador for Saudi Arabia,
and the president of the Middle East Policy Council.
Abdallah
Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud is the king of Saudi Arabia,
and a benefactor for the Middle East
Policy Council.
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