PLO Not Subject to Suit in US Over Attacks on US Citizens Abroad

The family of a US citizen fatally stabbed during an attack in the West Bank can’t pursue claims against the Palestinian Authority or the Palestine Liberation Organization, a circuit court ruled.

A federal statute drafted to give US courts jurisdiction over the PLO and the PA for providing funds to those who commit “an act of terrorism that injured or killed” a US citizen is unconstitutional, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Sept. 8, affirming the district court’s dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendants.

The statute, the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims ...