Under JASTA, a foreign state can be sued in U.S. courts for an act of international terrorism in the United States if its officials or agents, acting within their duties, caused it. [2] Saudi Arabia argued that Bayoumi and Thumairy did not act for the kingdom. Judge Daniels found that Saudi Arabia “did not carry its burden” to show the exception did not apply, so the claims “will proceed to decision on their merits.” [1]
On the apartment help, the judge wrote that the evidence “creates a reasonable inference that all the apartment-related assistance he provided for the hijackers was not just acts of a good Samaritan, but rather that he was following KSA’s instructions.” He added that some disputed facts, like the meaning of the airplane sketch, can only be settled at trial. [1]
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