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What could possibly go wrong?

Ian Millhiser at Vox:

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will get involved in a longstanding dispute between the families of Americans killed in Israel and the government of some parts of Palestine in a case called Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization. Realistically, whatever the justices decide, they are unlikely to have much of an impact on the broader conflict between Palestine and Israel. But the case could reshape the rules governing who can be sued, and where, here in the United States. Right now, if someone wants to bring a lawsuit, they can’t just file it in any court they’d like. They have to bring the suit in a court located in a place where the person or entity they are suing has ties. In legal terms, this idea is known as “personal jurisdiction.” Typically, personal jurisdiction operates on a sliding scale, with local courts gaining more and more power over a defendant as that defendant builds closer ties to that jurisdiction.

So, for example, a company that has multiple retail outlets and dozens of employees in the state of Texas could likely be sued for virtually anything in Texas’s courts. But a company based in Nebraska that only occasionally ships a product to a Texas customer would be less vulnerable to suit in Texas. That company could probably still be sued in Texas court over a dispute arising out of that product. But the company probably could not be sued in Texas over a matter that had nothing to do with its business in Texas, such as if its CEO was accused of sexually harassing a subordinate at the company’s headquarters in Nebraska. Instead, the sexual harassment lawsuit would likely need to be filed in a court in Nebraska. If the Court were to side with the plaintiffs in Fuld, it could upend personal jurisdiction, at least in cases that interest Congress or a state legislature. Americans might be forced to defend themselves in courts in distant states, and potentially in states with draconian laws and hostile judges.

The issue before the Supreme Court involves several Americans who were killed while abroad in Israel or Palestine. One of these Americans, Ari Fuld, was fatally stabbed during a 2018 attack outside a shopping mall in the West Bank. The identity of the attacker is not mentioned in the lower court’s decision or in the Supreme Court briefing, but Fuld’s family sued the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA), claiming that these two organizations “encouraged, incentivized, and assisted” the attack. (The PLO is the national representative of the Palestinian people, and it runs the PA, a governmental body that manages Palestinian territories in the West Bank.)

Fuld’s family, and other family members of those killed, all brought similar lawsuits in federal court. The problem is that neither the PLO nor the PA have any legally relevant connection to the United States. The attacks took place nearly 7,000 miles from the United States. Federal law largely forbids the PLO from conducting business of any kind in the United States, beyond maintaining a mission to the United Nations.

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How Fuld could scramble all Americans’ constitutional rights

The Fuld case could potentially reshape the rights of many Americans, who currently enjoy broad protections against being sued in a faraway court located in a state they’ve never visited. The Supreme Court has long held that the rules of personal jurisdiction are grounded in the Constitution, specifically the guarantee that no one shall be denied “due process of law.”

As the federal appeals court that heard Fuld explained, moreover, “the ‘due process analysis’ in the personal jurisdiction context ‘is basically the same’” regardless of whether someone is sued in federal or state court. That means if the Supreme Court rules that two foreign organizations with few, if any, relevant ties to the US can be “deemed to have consented” to being sued in federal court by an act of Congress, a state legislature could also potentially deem that people who’ve had few contacts with that state may be sued in its courts. Texas’s legislature, for example, could potentially pass a law stating that abortion providers and clinics throughout the United States are deemed to have consented to suit in Texas courts — where they might be sued for violating a Texas law allowing bounty hunters to collect money from abortion providers, especially if the state legislature also amended that law to specifically provide for such out-of-state suits. Congress, meanwhile, might allow any abortion provider to be sued in federal court in Amarillo, Texas — home of the notoriously anti-abortion judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.

The Fuld v. PLO case at SCOTUS could have a massive impact on “personal jurisdiction.”

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Love and truth were murdered yesterday

There’s a new hole in my heart. My friend Ari Fuld (45), a true lion of Judah, father of 4, stabbed in the back and murdered in cold blood by a 16-year old Muslim Palestinian. Ari was a true mensch who would give you the shirt off his back. He was a tireless voice for Israel, a consummate leader, a Judaic teacher, a black belt (level 4) and Karate instructor, and mentor to many. Another in a long line of tragic losses for the Jewish people and the people of Israel. As I write this, I still can't get my head around the fact that he is gone.

Assassination. Ari's murderer was Khalil Jabarina, a not unusual cowardly Islamist whose Jew-hatred was only surpassed by his disdain for life. Khalil was from Yata (8 km south of Hevron), raised in an environment of hatred and death, and of celebrating mass murderers. For example, Khalil was educated in a school named for a terrorist murderer of Jews (a school funded by UNWRA with contributions from European citizens). Khalil lives on a street bearing the name of another terrorist murderer of Jews, not far from the central square of the country, which is named after yet another killer.

In compensation for murdering a Jew, Khalil's already wealthy family will receive a generous stipend of 12,000 shekels (4,000 euros) each month, or 144,000 shekels (48,000 euros) a year. This is the price of a Jew’s head - be it a mother, a child, or a male civilian. This income is funded by European taxpayers. Just last week, Italy gave an additional 3.5 million euros to UNWRA.

Ari was a black belt (4th degree), an expert marksman, and carried a firearm. While he was stabbed in the back 5 times and was bleeding out, Ari somehow managed the strength to chase and shoot the murderer, who sadly, will live another day to propagate his hatred.

From Ari's last FB Torah teaching on Sept 14. https://www.facebook.com/SwordOfIsrael/videos/2311794722168078/UzpfSTc5NjI1MDU0MDoxMDE2MDkzNjczNDAzMDU0MQ/

Donate to the Ari Fuld Memorial Fund https://www.gofundme.com/ari-fuld

Benjamin Netanyahu condolences: https://www.facebook.com/…/a.1015168156…/10155849858982076/…

Security footage shows Efrat resident, blood streaming down his back, chasing and shooting Khalil Jabarin, saving Hila Peretz

Fuld, a 45-year-old loving husband, father of four, writer, teacher and former paratrooper, was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old terrorist.

Before he collapsed against the shopping mall wall from his fatal wound, Fuld shot and stopped the terrorist — who, unlike Ari, was successfully treated at an Israeli hospital for his wounds and will now likely receive cash rewards and a pension from the Palestinian Authority.

Read more: https://forward.com/scribe/410388/ari-fuld-was-not-a-settler-he-was-an-innocent-victim-of-terror/

Ari Fuld, the Israeli man who was killed Sunday by a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank, pursued his assailant after he had been fatally stabbed, stopping him from attacking a mall employee, and possibly saving her life.

Security camera footage of the shopping mall at the Gush Etzion Junction released on Monday shows Fuld, with blood pouring down his back chasing and shooting 17-year-old Khalil Jabarin.

“I served him the falafel; his hand touched mine,” Peretz said of the chilling encounter. “He went out, walked away, and sat on the railing outside the pizza shop. He sat there for at least 40 minutes.

“He didn’t attract suspicion,” she added, “because he was a kid.”

Then, she said, she “saw him pull out this big knife that was glimmering in the sun, and all of the sudden he plunged it into [Ari Fuld’s] heart.” “The terrorist was right behind me,” she recalled. “I started running down the stairs but he jumped to try to get in front of me. The man that was killed really saved my life.”She added of Fuld: “He’s not just a hero. He gave his life for me.”

Jabarin had attempted to carry out a similar attack in the West Bank two days earlier, Hadashot news reported.

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