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Supreme Court: Individuals can sue PA |
Wednesday, August 6, 2008, Jerusalem Post:
 The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a 2006 decision by the Jerusalem District Court according to which the Palestinian Authority is immune from lawsuits filed by private individuals because it has the elements of a sovereign or quasi-sovereign entity.
In doing so, the court accepted an appeal by the Society of the Eilon Moreh Seminary, whose lawsuit against the PA was rejected two years ago by the Jerusalem court. |
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Pollard asks TA court to declare State never gave him money |
Monday, August 4, 2008, Jerusalem Post:
 Jonathan Pollard charged Monday that the government was "blatantly lying" in claiming it was providing he and his wife with financial support, and thereby undermining their fight to win his release from prison.
On Monday, his lawyer, Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, filed an action in Tel Aviv District Court asking for a declaratory judgment stating that neither Pollard nor his wife, Esther, have received monetary support from the State of Israel from the time of Pollard's arrest by American authorities up until the present day. |
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Israeli Civil Rights Center Warns: Gaza Boat Organizers Have Violated the Neutrality Act |
Thursday, July 31, 2008, SunHerald:
 The Israeli civil rights group, Shurat HaDin, has sent an urgent letter to United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey, warning him that the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and others, have conspired to violate the U.S. Neutrality Act, 18 U.S.C. § 960, in their efforts to organize a boatlift to the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip. |
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Terror victims' families sue Barghouti for NIS450m |
Friday, July 25, 2008, Ha'aretz:
 The relatives of terror victims yesterday filed a NIS 450 million class-action lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization and jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
The plaintiffs, who filed the suit in the Jerusalem District Court, are the families of Givat Ze'ev residents Ronen Landau and Yoela Hen, who were killed some four years ago in two separate shooting attacks near their home.
Ronen Landau was 17 when he was killed in a highway ambush while traveling home with his father from Jerusalem. Yoela Hen, a mother-of-two who died at the age of 45, was killed en route to a family wedding. |
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Survivors of 2006 Hezbollah attacks sue 2 banks for $650M in federal court in US |
Monday, July 14, 2008, LA Times:
 NEW YORK (AP) _ A group of Americans, Canadians and Israelis who claim Hezbollah rocket attacks injured them and killed relatives have accused two banks of helping finance the terrorist attacks and have sued them for $650 million. The 85 plaintiffs say in court papers that American Express Bank Ltd. of New York and the Lebanese-Canadian Bank SAL of Beirut unlawfully transferred millions of dollars for Hezbollah between 2004 and 2006. |
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