Deutsche Bank Not Liable to Mom of Soldier Killed in Iraq

Deutsche Bank AG isn’t liable under the Anti-Terrorism Act to the mother of a U.S. soldier who was killed by a terrorist bomb in Iraq, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said Dec. 12.

Rhonda Kemper didn’t show the bank’s conduct was international terrorism, the opinion by Chief Judge Diane P. Wood said.

Kemper argued that the bank is responsible under the ATA because of its alleged membership in an Iranian conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, which, she said, the bank joined by designing procedures to evade U.S. sanctions and facilitate Iranian banking. She claimed the bomb ...