Kreindler Firm Fails to Undo Leaked 9/11 Transcript Punishment

The air crash litigation firm Kreindler & Kreindler LLP failed to escape a lower court order sanctioning the firm for leaking a confidential transcript in a long-running suit tied to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The sanctions order isn’t immediately appealable under the collateral order doctrine, because it’s effectively reviewable after final judgment and doesn’t resolve “important questions separate from the merits,” the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Wednesday.

The Kreindler firm served on the plaintiffs’ executive committee in multidistrict litigation alleging Saudi Arabia provided support to Osama bin Laden and the terrorists who ...