network of support for the hijackers in the U.S. and that Islamist charities funded by the Saudi government funneled money to al-Qaeda as it grew over the years from a regional terrorist group based in Afghanistan and the Middle East into a global threat.
The kingdom was initially dismissed as a defendant in the litigation in 2005 by federal District Judge Richard Conway Casey. But in 2013, it was reinstated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which said that an exception in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act allowed U.S. citizens to sue foreign governments for terrorism.
The case took another twist last September when federal District Judge George Daniels again dismissed Saudi Arabia as a defendant. He concluded that because the acts leading to 9/11 occurred outside the country, U.S. courts lack jurisdiction.
Cozen has appealed that decision.
The bill passed Tuesday by the Senate seeks to make clear that U,
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