Weiss v. National Westminster Bank PLC

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that plaintiffs pled proximate cause where they alleged that bank provided financial services to terrorists before terrorist attack
• concluding that plaintiffs pled proximate cause where they alleged that bank provided financial services to terrorists before terrorist attack
• “it is sufficient for plaintiffs to allege a familial relationship, such as that of a child, parent, spouse, or sibling of a U.S. national.”
• defendant engaged in “mere maintenance of a bank account and the receipt or transfer of funds”
• parents and siblings of victims have sufficient familial relationships to bring claims under § 2333(a)
• “I cannot conclude as a matter of law that [defendant’s] transaction in 2000 could not be the proximate cause of an attack that occurred less than two years later in 2002.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).