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Justice over Terror Denied as PLO Escapes Responsibility
(New York Daily News) Editorial - In a moral error of major proportions, a Manhattan federal appeals panel has thrown out one of the most important anti-terrorism court decisions in years. In 2015, a jury found the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization responsible for terror attacks that killed and maimed Americans in Israel - and liable for $655 million under the 1990 Anti-Terrorism Act, designed to give American victims of terror attacks anywhere in the world recourse in federal courts. On Jan. 22, 2002, a Palestinian Authority policeman shot up a bus stop where New Yorker Shmuel Waldman had his leg blown apart. On Jan. 27, 2002, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem badly injured Rena and Mark Sokolow, of Long Island, and their two daughters. On July 31, 2002, five Americans were killed in a Hebrew University cafeteria bombing. The appeals panel's ruling sets a standard that effectively renders the entire law moot. The ruling must go to the Supreme Court, which cannot let it stand.