U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously That Federal Courts Can Exercise Jurisdiction Over the Palestinian Authority in Damages Actions Brought by U.S. Victims of Palestinian Terror

In 2019, Congress enacted the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (PSJVTA), which created jurisdiction over the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for terrorism-related lawsuits in U.S. courts, even when the act of terrorism occurred outside the United States. In the first case brought under PSJVTA, the widow of Israeli-American Ari Fuld, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian teenager in 2018, brought a damages action against the PA and PLO in federal court in New York.