Military Base Shooting Victims Revive Suit Against Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia failed to escape legal claims that it negligently hired a man who committed a deadly terrorist attack at a US military base, a federal appeals court ruled.

The ruling Monday comes in the wake of the 2019 attack at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida that left three American servicemen dead and injured 13 other military members and local law enforcement personnel.

The dozens of suing attack victims and their family members sufficiently alleged the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was grossly negligent in its vetting, hiring, and dispatching of Mohammed Saeed Al-Shamrani to the US under Florida law, ...