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Case of the Day: Safra v. Palestinian Authority
While I don’t generally write about personal jurisdiction cases, the irony in Safra v. Palestinian Authority (D.D.C. 2015), is too good to pass up, especially in light of the verdict in Sokolow v. Palestinian Authority yesterday. In Sokolow, the jury found that the Palestinian Authority was liable for more than $200 million to victims of……
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Palestine Signs The New York Convention
The big news in the past few days is that Palestine, after being rebuffed by the Security Council, signed the Rome Statute, taking a first step toward seeking to bring war crimes charges against Israelis and also perhaps opening the way to war crimes charges being brought against Hamas terrorists. But Palestine also signed a……