No. 23-208

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. v. Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East

Lower Court: District of Columbia
Docketed: 2023-09-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) Experienced Counsel
Tags: aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process facial-plausibility foreign-policy foreign-terrorist-organizations jurisdiction pro-palestinian-organizations standing statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-liability
Key Terms:
JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2024-01-19 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether 'facial plausibility' of a complaint filed by a victim of international terrorism committed in Israel may be judged by a different standard than complaints filed by victims of international terrorism elsewhere in the world

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether “facial plausibility” of a complaint filed by a victim of international terrorism committed in Israel may be judged by a different standard than complaints filed by victims of international terrorism elsewhere in the world. 2. Whether an American tax-free charity whose functions include collecting and providing taxdeductible contributions that support proPalestinian organizations including designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations may avoid discovery designed to produce admissible evidence that the charity aids and abets, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2), Hamas’ dispatch of terrorist incendiary balloons and kites that injure American citizens residing in southern Israel. 3. Whether the Rule 12(b)(6) standard that this Court applied in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh, and in Gonzalez v. Google LLC and that lower courts have applied to complaints in actions under 18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) against international banks and massive corporate entities that provide extensive nonpolitical services should govern a lawsuit filed by US citizens injured by Hamasdirected terrorism against a US charity that has a single political focus and circuitously transfers contributed money to Hamas.

Docket Entries

2024-01-22
Motion for leave to file amici brief out of time filed by National Jewish Advocacy Center, et al. DENIED.
2024-01-22
Petition DENIED.
2024-01-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/19/2024.
2024-01-03
Reply of petitioners Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2023-12-20
Brief of respondent Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East in opposition filed.
2023-12-20
Motion for leave to file amici brief out of time filed by National Jewish Advocacy Center, et al.
2023-11-20
Brief amici curiae of Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed.
2023-11-13
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 20, 2023.
2023-11-10
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 20, 2023 to December 20, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-10-19
Response Requested. (Due November 20, 2023)
2023-10-18
Supplemental brief of petitioners Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. filed.
2023-10-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2023.
2023-10-06
Waiver of right of respondent Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East to respond filed.
2023-10-06
Brief amicus curiae of Zionist Organization of America filed. (Distributed)
2023-10-05
2023-09-01

Attorneys

Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East
Maria Couri LaHoodCenter for Constitutional Rights, Respondent
Maria Couri LaHoodCenter for Constitutional Rights, Respondent
Shayana Devendra KadidalCenter for Constitutional Rights, Respondent
Shayana Devendra KadidalCenter for Constitutional Rights, Respondent
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al.
Nathan LewinLewin & Lewin, LLP, Petitioner
Nathan LewinLewin & Lewin, LLP, Petitioner
Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
Jason Brett TorchinskyHoltzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky Josefiak PLLC, Amicus
Jason Brett TorchinskyHoltzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky Josefiak PLLC, Amicus
National Jewish Advocacy Center, StandWithUs, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Coalition for Jewish Values, and Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce
David I. SchoenAttorney at Law, Amicus
David I. SchoenAttorney at Law, Amicus
Zachor Legal Institute
Marc Arthur GreendorferZachor Legal Institute, Amicus
Marc Arthur GreendorferZachor Legal Institute, Amicus
Zionist Organization of America
Susan B. TuchmanZionist Organization of America, Amicus
Susan B. TuchmanZionist Organization of America, Amicus