Legal Opinion
Bassem Al-Tamimi v. Sheldon Adelson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 19, 2019No. 17-5207PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Karen LeCraft Henderson, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs, both Palestinian nationals and Palestinian Americans, claim the defendants, pro-Israeli American individuals and entities, are conspiring to expel all non-Jews from territory whose sovereignty is in dispute. 1 They sued in federal district court, pressing four claims: (1) civil conspiracy, (2) genocide and other war crimes, (3) aiding and abetting genocide and other war crimes and (4) trespass. Concluding that all four claims raise nonjusticiable political questions, the district court dismissed the complaint for lack of subject matter…
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