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Jan. 06-- Jan. 6--AMMAN -- The Arab Bank on Monday said that the lawsuits filed against it by Israelis in Israeli courts 'have no legal basis'. In a disclosure statement [...]

Byline: Mohammad Ghazal Feb. 10--AMMAN -- The Arab Bank expressed its 'relief' on Saturday over a US appeals court that has thrown out a 2014 jury verdict finding Arab Bank [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, which has already placed strict limits on lawsuits brought in federal court based on human rights abuses abroad, seemed open on Wednesday to barring such [...]

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether corporations may be sued in American courts for complicity in human rights abuses abroad. The case concerns Arab Bank, which is [...]

On April 24, 2018, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that foreign corporations cannot be sued in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. [...]

Key Points The Supreme Court in Jesner v. Arab Bank ruled 5-4 that suits against foreign corporations under the ATS are barred, answering a question left unresolved in Kiobel v. [...]

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision on Tuesday that a foreign corporation, even with branches in the United States, [...]

On Wednesday, October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank. The case may once and for all determine whether companies are appropriate defendants in [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes A majority of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday that an 18th-century law allows foreign citizens to sue foreign corporations in U.S. courts over allegations of human [...]

It's Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we've been monitoring. This week's post includes: the U.S. Government's amicus brief [...]

Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to address the question of whether companies can be liable in federal court for human rights violations under a 1789 law. Most appeals [...]

On Monday, April 3, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by plaintiffs in Jesner v. Arab Bank, No. 16-499. The case may once [...]

Today, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in one case of interest to the business community: Alien Tort Statute--Application to Corporations Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC, No. 16-499 The Alien Tort [...]

U.S. suit filed by Motley Rice LLC and others seeks justice for foreign victims of attacks abroad, allegedly funded by bank with previous New York City branch MT. PLEASANT, S.C., [...]

In a New York federal court, the families of certain suicide bombing victims filed a damage suit under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) against the Arab Bank, PLC, based in Jordan. [...]

Three days before a first-of-its-kind damages trial was supposed to start, a Middle Eastern bank has reached a settlement with hundreds of American plaintiffs, including victims of terrorist attacks around [...]

A federal judge in Brooklyn on Wednesday largely upheld a jury verdict that found a Middle Eastern bank liable for 24 terrorist attacks, but agreed to drop two of those [...]

Riyadh: Arab National Bank has issued the following news release: Arab Bank released the following statement in response to today's verdict by the jury in Linde v. Arab Bank, PLC [...]

With a landmark judgment on Monday declaring Arab Bank liable for knowingly supporting terrorism, the case now turns to another complicated calculation: the cost of that liability. The 297 plaintiffs [...]

A federal jury on Monday found Arab Bank liable for knowingly supporting terrorism efforts connected to two dozen attacks in the Middle East, the first time a bank has ever [...]

What should the role of a bank be when it is forced to operate in areas torn apart by terrorist attacks? That was a central theme Thursday during closing arguments [...]

For three days, the former chief of the Israeli military's Palestinian Affairs Department delivered important, if a bit dry, testimony in the terrorism financing trial of Arab Bank in Federal [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe plaintiffs cited specific bank transactions: a 2001 transfer of $60,000 to a Hamas leader, as well as cash payments on behalf of a Saudi charity routed through Jordan, [...]

The judge called it the Beirut account. It was a basic bank account at Arab Bank's Al-Mazra branch in Beirut, Lebanon, unremarkable except for the name on the account: Osama [...]

WASHINGTON -- Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. faced a legal and bureaucratic dilemma this year: Obama administration officials could not agree about what he should tell the Supreme Court [...]

WASHINGTON -- In 2004, relatives of some American citizens killed or injured by terrorist attacks in Israel sought redress in an unusual way. They filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Arab [...]

* The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a foreign corporation cannot be sued in U.S. courts for terrorist attacks and other human rights violations abroad. The court, in a [...]

On December 8, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of plaintiffs' claims in five consolidated cases against Arab Bank, PLC. Plaintiffs in each of the cases alleged [...]

Aug. 26--AMMAN -- The Arab Bank on Sunday announced that a New York court has dismissed lawsuits filed by thousands of plaintiffs against Jordan's largest financial institution on allegations it [...]

MT. PLEASANT, S.C., Dec. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Judge Brian M. Cogan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn set a schedule [...]

'Since 2004, the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, represented by the Central Bank of Jordan, has been closely following the developments in the case filed in New York [...]

NEW YORK - A federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday upheld three lawsuits accusing Jordan-based Arab Bank of promoting Palestinian suicide attacks by funneling Saudi money to bombers' families. U.S. [...]

Arab Bank will pay $24 million to settle American claims that its New York branch failed to scrutinize transactions for money laundering and terrorist financing. The bank also did not […]

Federal regulators yesterday ordered Arab Bank, a Jordan-based bank facing several lawsuits in New York filed by victims of terrorist attacks, to suspend most of its operations in the United […]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Bioterrorism Week -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2(nd) Circuit issued a ruling that will allow a group of terrorism victims [...]

NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2[sup.nd] Circuit today issued a ruling that will allow a group of terrorism victims to continue [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that requires Jordan-based Arab Bank Plc to supply documents in lawsuits accusing it of providing services to groups the United [...]

According to 'Jordan Times', the Arab Bank renewed its rejection of allegations of supporting 'terrorism' against Israel in Palestinian territories. In a statement, a senior Arab Bank official said the [...]