Legal Opinion
Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief & Development
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 2008No. 05-1815, 05-1816, 05-1821, 05-1822PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 1996 David Boim, a Jewish teenager who was both an Israeli citizen and an American citizen, living in Israel, was shot to death by two men at a bus stop near Jerusalem. His parents filed this suit four years later, alleging that his killers had been Hamas gunmen and naming as defendants Muhammad Salah plus three organizations: the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the American Muslim Society, and the Quranic Literacy Institute. (A fourth, the Islamic Associa*688tion of Palestine-National, appears to be either an alter ego of the American Muslim Society or…
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