The U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 3 declined to pause a $655.5 million judgment that Palestinian authorities were ordered to pay plaintiffs in a U.S. lawsuit arising from attacks in Israel on Americans from 2002 to 2004.
The order denying the emergency application in Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) v. Sokolow was issued by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who did not explain her ruling.
The Palestinian Authority, a co-petitioner in the case, filed the application along with the PLO. The authority is an interim self-governing body that administers some parts of the West Bank. The respondents, led by Mark Sokolow, the lead plaintiff in the underlying lawsuit, are affected U.S. citizens or representatives of deceased U.S. citizens killed or injured as a result of acts of terrorism….