New York Times
April 8, 2015
Stephanie Clifford
A federal judge in Brooklyn on Wednesday largely upheld a jury verdict that found a Middle Eastern bank liable for 24 terrorist attacks, but agreed to drop two of those attacks from …
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Arab Bank judge sets low causation bar for Anti-Terrorism claims
The Anti-Terrorism Act – which grafts civil remedies onto criminal statutes aimed at international attacks by militant groups – is confusing. As U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan of Brooklyn explained Wednesday in an opinion upholding a jury verdict of liability …
‘Aerospatiale’ Factors on Discovery in Violation of Foreign Laws
New York Law Journal
December 8, 2014
Geoffrey Sant
What could be worse for a litigant than being ordered by a court in one country to violate the law in another country? This strange scenario has become surprisingly common within …