This column discusses recent noteworthy decisions of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. This installment focuses on a decision by U.S. District Judge David L. Hurd of the Northern District of New York addressing a motion to intervene filed by the liquidators of a Ukrainian bank controlled by the Russian Federation whose assets were subject to a writ of execution in the Northern District of New York that was sought to satisfy a default judgment entered against the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and the Haqqani Network in the Northern District of Texas as a result of personal injuries stemming from a 2016 terrorist attack.

That's right­—the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, the Russian Federation and international economic sanctions, all coming to a head at a Bank of New York Mellon branch in the sleepy village of Oriskany, New York.