US Supreme Court won’t halt $656 million judgment against Palestinians over terror attacks

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to halt $655.5 million in damages that Palestinian authorities were ordered to pay plaintiffs in a US civil lawsuit concerning terror attacks that killed and injured Americans in Israel from 2002 to 2004, during the Second Initifada. Sotomayor denied a request by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to pause the judgment while they appeal a lower court’s decision to revive the case years after it had been dismissed. The lawsuit was filed by victims of attacks in Jerusalem that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more. The attacks...