Law Advice

A 2nd Circuit panel considering a 9/11 widower’s wrongful death suit against Afghanistan found that the suit fell under a non-terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Will the decision allow Cozen O’Connor to revive its own 9/11 suit against Saudi Arabia? View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Globe and Mail Iran blasts US claim of plot to kill Saudi ambassador: 'No legal logic'Washington PostBy AP, TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Foreign Ministry says US claims that Tehran was involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington have no “legal logic.” The ministry, in a statement on the state news agency [...]

Law enforcement agents said today they obtained a confession from an Iranian man who is charged in New York in a murder-for-hire plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said “factions of the Iranian government” approved the plot. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

ArabianBusiness.com Saudi legal action sets off storm in CanadaArabianBusiness.comSaudi officials sent a legal notice to broadcaster CTV, which removed an ad that was scheduled to run on its network. “Our position should be that we are in receipt of notice of a legal dispute with respect to this spot and that, accordingly, …Saudi threats a [...]

Cozen O’Connor has abruptly withdrawn a complaint that promised to breathe new life into claims that Saudi Arabia should compensate the families of 9/11 victims, but Cozen’s efforts to hold the Kingdom financially responsible for its alleged support of al-Qaida may not be over. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Sun News Network Saudi legal tactics anger Canadian officialsMarketWatchA Canadian TV ad that promotes Canada's “ethical oil “ and blasts Middle East oil — from the same organization that's run print ads showing an Arab woman about to be stoned — has caused Saudi Arabia's lawyers in Canada to send a threatening legal …Pot Calls [...]

Just days before the 10th anniversary of the attacks, a new 9/11 suit has been filed against Saudi Arabia on behalf of an insurance syndicate that covered more than $215 million of the $1.2 billion settlement struck last year with airlines and airport security firms. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

USA Today Amnesty says website blocked after Saudi leakJerusalem PostBy REUTERS JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia – Amnesty International said its website had been blocked in Saudi Arabia after the rights group published a leaked draft of an anti-terror law and accused the kingdom of planning to use the legislation to crush dissent. …Saudi Arabia blocks Amnesty [...]

USA Today Amnesty International's Website Blocked in Saudi ArabiaMashableThe Saudi Arabian government has reportedly blocked access to Amnesty International's website, days after the human rights organization locked horns with the government over a draft anti-terrorism law. The law, posted online last Friday by Amnesty, …Saudi Arabia blocks Amnesty International Web site after anti-terror law leakWashington [...]

USA Today Saudi Arabia blocks Amnesty International Web site after anti-terror law leakWashington Post (blog)The move came after Amnesty International criticized a leaked copy of a draft of an anti-terror law proposed by the Saudi government that would stifle peaceful protest in the kingdom. In its analysis, Amnesty International condemned the law saying it …After [...]