ABECASSIS v. Wyatt’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2331 (Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2004) · 18 U.S.C. § 2332 · 18 U.S.C. § 2333 (Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 2019) · 18 U.S.C. § 2339A (§ 120005 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 2339B (§ 303 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2339C · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 8 U.S.C. § 1189 (§ 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Conley v. Gibson · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Boim en banc opinion] is so broad that, if taken to its logical extension, it could make any person liable if that person knows that (or is deliberately indifferent to whether) Hamas commits terrorist attacks in Israel, if even $1 of that person’s money ends up in Hamas’s bank account.... [T]he limits of liability are unclear under [the Boim en banc opinion], which removes a causation requirement and removes an intent, or purpose, or knowledge requirement and only demands awareness that the organization that ends up receiving the funds is a terrorist group.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“• On November 4, 2001, a PIJ terrorist named Hatem Shweikeh, opened fire with automatic weapons in a bus in Jerusalem. He killed two people and injured 40, including plaintiffs Yissachar Zvi Lebowitz (the son of plaintiffs Rosalyn Shoshanna Pearl and Shimon Lebowitz), Shifra Markowitz (the daughter of plaintiffs Ester Devora Markowitz and Gerald Markowitz), Sarah Mordechai (the daughter of plaintiff Shirin Mordechai), Ora Rubinoff (the daughter of Aviva Rubinoff and Mitchell Jay Rubinoff, and the sister of plaintiffs Eliezer Rubinoff, Yosef Rubinoff, and Shoshanna Rubinoff), and Gila Schnall (the daughter of plaintiffs Frances Schnall and Ira Schnall). The terrorist’s mother received a payment on behalf of Saddam Hussein. (Id., ¶ 234). • On December 1, 2001, two Hamas suicide bombers named Osama Baher and Nabil Halbiyeh detonated explosives on their persons and rigged to a car on Ben Yehudah Street in 'Jerusalem. The attack killed 11 and wounded 170, including plaintiff Baruch Yehuda Ziv Brill. On January 22, 2002, the father of one attacker and the mother of the other each received a $15,000 check on behalf of Hussein. Both were signed by Rakad Salem, “the head of the ALF.” (Id., ¶ 233). • On March 9, 2002, a Hamas suicide bomber named Fuad Hurani detonated explosives at a café in Jerusalem. Eleven people were killed, and fifty-eight people were wounded, including plaintiff Yoseff Cohen. Plaintiff Asael Firdman alleges that he suffered serious psychological injures as a resu”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abecassis v. Wyatt
How this case has been treated — in progress
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