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"Funding Terrorism Is Issue in Chicago Case"

"Funding Terrorism Is Issue in Chicago Case": Today in The New York Sun, Josh Gerstein has an article that begins, "A federal appeals court that includes some of America's most prominent jurists is wrestling with a case that could set an important precedent about when Americans can be held legally liable for funding groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, that carry out terrorist operations and humanitarian aid efforts at the same time. In Chicago, 10 judges who constitute nearly the entire active bench of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals spent more than an hour hearing lively arguments in a lawsuit brought by the family of an American yeshiva student, David Boim, 17, who was sprayed with gunfire and killed in an apparent terrorist attack at a West Bank bus stop in 1996."

And The Associated Press provides a report headlined "Lawyer: Islamic groups should pay in teen's death."

You can access the audio of yesterday's Seventh Circuit en banc oral argument via this link (13.2MB mp3 audio file).

My earlier coverage of the now-vacated decision of a partially-divided three judge Seventh Circuit panel in this case can be accessed here and here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 11, 2008 (boomark / email).