The fate of Monday’s $655.5 million verdict against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization may depend on a relative (though certainly important) technicality: whether a U.S. judge erred in asserting jurisdiction over the case. But even if an appeals court scraps the judge’s legal findings and tosses the jury’s award, the impact of the verdict—symbolic, political and emotional—will likely never be swept away.
For that, the plaintiffs can thank the 12 New York jurors who found the PA and PLO liable for terrorist attacks that killed or maimed scores of people in Israel, including several Americans. And they can thank Arnold & Porter’s Kent Yalowitz, who stepped in two years ago to take the decade-old case to trial.
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