Legal Opinion
Ungar v. Palestine Liberation Organization
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 31, 2005No. 04-2079PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises exceptionally important questions of justiciability and sovereignty, emblematic of unsettled political conditions that have plagued the Middle East for many years. In it, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ask us to countermand the district court’s refusal to dismiss the action against them. They contend that the case hinges on a nonjusti-ciable political question and that, at any rate, the defendants enjoy sovereign immunity. In the event that these arguments do not carry the day, the defendants seek vacation…
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