Legal Opinion
James Owens v. BNP Paribas, S.A.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 27, 2018No. 17-7037PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Griffith, Circuit Judge:
In 1998, al Qaeda detonated truck bombs outside the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing over two hundred people and injuring several thousand more. Victims of these attacks sued the French bank BNP
Paribas for damages under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), alleging the bank provided financial assistance to Sudan, which in turn funded and otherwise supported al Qaeda's attack. Because the victims fail to plausibly allege BNP Paribas caused their injuries, and because the ATA does not permit recovery for claims premised on aiding and…
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