Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED The questions presented are: 1. Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment—a defense the Court has ruled unavailable to U.S. state sovereigns and many courts have ruled unavailable to foreign sovereigns—while simultaneously asserting its status as a foreign sovereign in a case against the United States at the International Court of Justice, which handicaps Congress’s constitutional powers; 2. Whether a court can override Congress’s intent to subject the PA-PLO under the AntiTerrorism Act to civil litigation in U.S. courts, despite Congress’s constitutional authority to amend the jurisdiction of federal courts and protect Americans from acts of PA-PLO terrorism; 3. Whether the Fifth Amendment Amendment’s Due Process Clause, which allows criminal prosecution of a terrorist who murders a U.S. citizen, as well any person or entity that supported the crime, would nonetheless bar a lawsuit by the victim’s family to impose civil liability on the same actors under the same U.S. Code section;
2020-04-27
Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 2019, Pub. L. No. 116–94, div. J, tit. IX, § 903, 133 Stat. 3082. Justice Kavanaugh took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2020-04-22
Supplemental brief of respondents Palestinian Authority, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2020-04-20
Supplemental brief of petitioners Estate of Esther Klieman, by and through it's Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2020-04-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/24/2020.
2020-04-03
Reply of petitioners Estate of Esther Klieman, by and through it's Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. filed.
2020-03-26
Motion to delay distribution of the petition for a writ certiorari until April 8, 2020, granted.
2020-03-25
Motion of petitioner to delay distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari under Rule 15.5 from April 1, 2020 to April 8, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-03-13
Brief of respondents Palestinian Authority, et al. in opposition filed.
2020-01-31
Supplemental brief of petitioners Estate of Esther Klieman, by and through its Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. filed.
2019-12-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 10, 2020 to March 13, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-12-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 13, 2020.
2019-12-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 10, 2020)
2019-09-16
Application (19A296) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until December 5, 2019.
2019-09-11
Application (19A296) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 6, 2019 to December 5, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.