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Terrorism
Boim v. Quranic Literacy Institute, et al., (7th Circuit en banc, 2008)
Boim v. Quranic Literacy Institute, et al. (2005)
On March 13, 1996, David Boim, a 17 year-old American citizen, was shot and murdered by two Hamas terrorists while he waited for a bus to Jerusalem. His parents, Stanley and Joyce, successfully sued four Islamic charities and a fundraiser for over $150 million under a U.S. law that allows victims of terrorism abroad to collect damages in American courts from organizations that furnish money to terrorist groups. The Anti-Defamation League wrote an amicus brief on the appeal and argued that the district court correctly found that the plaintiffs did not need to show that money sent by the defendants directly paid for the shooting of David Boim. Rather, in the words of the district court, the Boims “need only show that the defendants were involved in an agreement to accomplish an unlawful act and that the attack that killed David Boim was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the conspiracy.” This landmark ruling reinforces the principle that those who raise money for terrorists are just as liable for the deaths of Americans as the terrorists themselves.
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