Weiss v. Nat'l Westminster Bank PLC
Weiss v. Nat'l Westminster Bank PLC
Opinion of the Court
DORA L. IRIZARRY, Chief United States District Judge *226Approximately 200 individuals and estates of deceased persons (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), brought this consolidated action against defendant National Westminster Bank PLC ("Defendant"), seeking to recover damages from terrorist attacks in Israel and the Palestine Territories pursuant to the civil liability provision of the Antiterrorism Act of 1992 ("ATA"),
BACKGROUND
The Plaintiffs first filed a complaint in Weiss v. National Westminster Bank PLC
Defendant first moved for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 on December 7, 2011, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 264, which Plaintiffs opposed, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 271. Defendant moved on three grounds, the first of which was that no reasonable jury could find that Defendant *227acted with the requisite scienter under the ATA. On March 28, 2013, this Court granted Defendant's motion, reaching only the scienter element. See , Weiss II ,
On January 12, 2015, in light of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Daimler AG v. Bauman ,
On June 17, 2016, Plaintiffs amended their complaint, adding claims arising from three additional attacks, the Ben Yehuda Street Bombings on December 1, 2001, the Part Junction Bus #32A Bombing on June 18, 2002, and the March 7, 2002 suicide attack on Atzmona (collectively, the "SoL Attacks"). See , Amended Complaint, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 345 and Amended Complaint, Applebaum , Dkt. Entry No. 218. On August 2, 2016, the Court granted Defendant permission to file a renewed motion for summary judgment with respect to the ATA elements that the Court did not reach in Weiss II , as well as Defendant's motion for summary judgment with respect to Plaintiffs' claims based on the SoL Attacks. On February 24, 2017, Defendant filed a renewed motion for summary judgment. See , Motion for Summary Judgment, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 358, which Plaintiffs opposed, See , Memorandum in Opposition, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 362. Defendant replied. Reply, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 365. On September 30, 2017, the Court granted in part and denied in part Defendant's renewed motion for summary judgment. See , Weiss v. National Westminster Bank PLC ("Weiss IV "),
The Court denied Defendant's summary judgment motion to the extent that: (1) there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether Defendant proximately caused international terrorism under the ATA; (2) there is sufficient admissible evidence for a reasonable jury to conclude that the 13 Charities are alter egos of Hamas under Hamas' control; (3) Plaintiffs' expert Ronni Shaked may testify to put factual evidence into context to establish Hamas's responsibility for an attack, but not to establish the basic facts in the first instance; (4) Plaintiffs' witness Evan Kohlmann may testify as an expert about Hamas' background and use of propaganda, but his summaries of the attacks and recitation of the presented evidence, without using any expertise, is not admissible; (5) there is sufficient admissible evidence for a reasonable jury to conclude that Hamas committed sixteen of the eighteen attacks; (6) Israeli military court convictions are admissible; and (7) eyewitness accounts are admissible.
On March 14, 2018, the Court granted Defendant permission to file a second renewed motion for summary judgment to address the narrow issue of how the Second Circuit's recent decision in Linde v. Arab Bank, PLC ,
LEGAL STANDARD
I. Summary Judgment
Summary judgment is appropriate where "the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). The court must view all facts in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, but "only if there is a 'genuine' dispute as to those facts." Scott v. Harris ,
II. Primary Liability Under the ATA
Section 2333(a) provides a civil remedy for "[a]ny national of the United States injured in his or her person, property, or business by reason of an act of international terrorism, or his or her estate, survivors, or heirs," stating that such national "may sue therefor in any appropriate district court of the United States ..."
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended--
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or *229transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum ...
Plaintiffs bring their claims under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B as the predicate criminal violation to satisfy the second prong, which requires that the act violate federal criminal law. Section 2339B makes it a felony to "knowingly provide[ ] material support or resources to a [F]oreign [T]errorist [O]rganization," or attempting or conspiring to do so. 18 U.S.C. § 2339B ; See also , Weiss II-A , 768 F.3d at 207. Under § 2339B, "a defendant may be liable for civil remedies under § 2333(a) for providing material support to an organization that solicits funds for an FTO," even if that support is not provided directly to the FTO itself. Weiss II-A , 768 F.3d at 209.
In Linde , the Second Circuit rejected the argument that providing material support to a known FTO in violation of § 2339B invariably constitutes a violent act or act dangerous to human life. Linde ,
In Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development , the Seventh Circuit rejected the plaintiffs' arguments that the defendant's financial donations to Hamas and Hamas-affiliated charities constituted an act of international terrorism as a matter of law when the defendant knew that Hamas used such money to finance the killing of Israeli Jews (some of whom were American citizens).
III. Secondary Liability Under the ATA
Initially, the ATA did not provide a civil remedy against secondary actors who facilitated acts of international terrorism by others. See , Linde ,
"JASTA expressly states that such secondary liability claims are not temporally limited to terrorist acts occurring after that statute's enactment." Linde ,
In enacting JASTA, Congress instructed that the "proper legal framework for how [aiding and abetting] liability should function" under the ATA is the framework identified in Halberstam v. Welch ,
*231" Linde ,
The Second Circuit has explained that, "[a]iding and abetting requires the secondary actor to be aware that, by assisting the principal, it is itself assuming a role in terrorist activities." Linde ,
DISCUSSION
I. Defendant's Primary Liability Under the ATA
Plaintiffs assert, and this Court concluded before the Second Circuit's decision in Linde , that a triable issue of material fact remains as to whether Defendant committed an act of international terrorism by facilitating Interpal's transfers of funds to 13 charities ("13 Charities"), which plaintiffs contend are alter egos of or controlled by Hamas, an FTO. See , Weiss IV ,
For purposes of its summary judgment motion and because the Second Circuit previously ruled in Plaintiffs' favor on the issue, See , Weiss II-A , 768 F.3d at 212, Defendant assumes that a triable issue of fact remains as to whether Defendant knowingly provided material support to an FTO in violation of § 2339B. See , Mot. at 5, n.4. Thus, Defendant does not dispute that the second Linde prong presents a triable issue of fact. Additionally, Defendant does not dispute the fourth Linde prong, that its alleged conduct occurred primarily outside the United States or transcended national boundaries. Id. at 5, n.3.
A. Violent Acts or Acts Dangerous to Human Life
Defendant contends that no reasonable juror could find that Defendant's routine banking services to Interpal involved violent acts or acts dangerous to human life. See , Mot. at 9. Defendant argues that undisputed evidence demonstrates that, to Defendant's knowledge, Interpal was a charity "aiming to do good works in a deeply deprived and troubled region." Id. To support this contention, Defendant points to customer information forms and emails between Defendant's employees, internal meeting minutes, internal records, and Interpal's annual reports, all of which indicate that Interpal was a charitable organization. Id. at 9-11; See also , Defendant's *232Supplemental Rule 56.1 Statement ("Def.'s 56.1 Stmt."), Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 397; Declaration of Mark E. McDonald in Support of Mot. ("McDonald Decl."), Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 396, Exs. 3, 5-7. Defendant provides evidence demonstrating that, of at least 457 wire transfers processed by Defendant from Interpal to the 13 Charities, none were identified as being for a specific violent or terroristic purpose. See , Def.'s 56.1 Stmt. ¶¶ 7-8; McDonald Decl., Ex. 8.
Plaintiffs concede that there is no evidence that any of Interpal's transfers to the 13 Charities processed by Defendant were identified as being for any specific violent or terroristic purpose. See , Plaintiffs' Response to Defendant's 2011 Rule 56.1 Statement ("Pls.' Resp. to 2011 56.1 Stmt."), Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 283 ¶ 248 ("Plaintiffs admit they do not contend that any of the funds Interpal transferred from the accounts it maintained with NatWest to Hamas was used specifically to finance any of the terrorist attacks that injured Plaintiffs and/or killed their loved ones.") (internal quotation marks and citation omitted); See also , Plaintiffs' Response to Defendant's 56.1 Stmt. ("Pls.' Resp. to 56.1 Stmt."), Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 401 ¶ 8 ("Admit that Interpal did not identify any of the Relevant Transfers as being for any violent or terroristic purpose."). Furthermore, Plaintiffs' experts Dr. Matthew Levitt and Mr. Arieh Spitzen admitted that the 13 Charities performed charitable work. See , Defendant's 2011 Rule 56.1 Statement ("Def.'s 2011 56.1 Stmt."), Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 279.
Citing to the experts reports by Levitt and Spitzen, Plaintiffs instead argue that the evidence demonstrates that the 13 Charities were controlled by Hamas founders and that the 13 Charities "were instrumental in organizing and distributing payments to families of suicide bombers and other terrorists." See , Mot. at 10 (citing Plaintiffs' Supplemental Rule 56.1 Statement ("Pls.' 56.1 Stmt."), Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 402 ¶ 19 and Declaration of Aaron Schlanger ("Schlanger Decl."), Weiss Dkt Entry No. 400, Exs. 11, 19-21). Plaintiffs claim that the evidence shows that the 13 Charities "recruited Hamas operatives to commit terrorist attacks." See , Id. at 11 (citing Pls.' 56.1 Stmt. ¶ 19 and Schlanger Decl. Exs. 11, 19-21). Plaintiffs further assert that the 13 Charities were "integral to Hamas's structure and operational capacity," without providing evidentiary support for such an assertion. See , Id. at 11.
Defendant relies on concessions made by Plaintiffs' own experts, Levitt and Spitzen, to counter the arguments made by Plaintiffs. See , Reply at 6. Specifically, Levitt does not opine that any funds transferred by Interpal through Defendant accounts were used to perpetrate the 15 attacks
Plaintiffs rely on the fact that the United States designated Interpal as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist ("SDGT") for providing support, including fundraising to Hamas, to support their contention that Defendant's services involved violent or dangerous acts. See , Opp. at 10 (citing Pls.' 56.1 Stmt. ¶ 7 and Schlanger Decl. Ex. 4). Defendant replies that Interpal's designation as an SDGT demonstrates, at best, a violation of § 2339B because of Defendant's support of an FTO. See , Reply at 6-7 (citing Weiss II-A , 768 F.3d at 211 ). The Second Circuit indeed distinguished an SDGT designation by OFAC from the State Department's FTO designation. See , Weiss II-A , 768 F.3d at 208-09, n.7 ("While an organization designated as an FTO by the State Department is a terrorist organization for the purposes of § 2339B, that is not true for organizations designated as SDGT by OFAC."). Defendant also emphasizes that nothing in the OFAC designation of Interpal as an SDGT states that Interpal had any involvement with Hamas's terrorist activities. See , Reply at 7. The OFAC designation also does not state that the banking services Defendant provided to Interpal involved Hamas's terrorist activities. Id.
Finally, Plaintiffs maintain that the Union of Good, designated as an SDGT in 2008 as an organization created by Hamas leadership in late 2000 to transfer funds Hamas, was Defendant's customer. See , Opp. at 10, n.12 (citing Pls.' 56.1 Stmt ¶ 12 and Schlanger Decl. Ex. 9). Defendant's disputes this assertion. See , Reply at 7. Additionally, Defendant argues that, even if Union of Good were Defendant's customer, that evidence, at best, would show a violation of § 2339B as Defendant's support of an agent of an FTO. See , Reply at 7.
On appeal from this Court's initial grant of summary judgment to Defendant, the Second Circuit held that Plaintiffs' allegations survive summary judgment as to whether Defendant had the requisite scienter under the material support statute, § 2339B. See , Weiss II-A , 768 F.3d at 205. The Second Circuit explained that § 2339 "requires only a showing that [Defendant] had knowledge that, or exhibited deliberate indifference to whether, Interpal provided material support to a terrorist organization , irrespective of whether Interpal's support aided terrorist activities of the terrorist organization." Id. (alterations in original). However, § 2331(1) specifies that, to constitute an act of international terrorism supporting civil liability under § 2333, Defendant's activities must meet the definitional requirements of international terrorism § 2331(1). See ,
Plaintiffs assert that the issue of whether Defendant's conduct satisfies the elements of § 2331(1) and § 2333(d) always is a question for the jury. See , Opp. at 3. However, that assertion is not supported *234by the Second Circuit's ruling in Linde . Instead, the Second Circuit concluded in Linde that in that case, the acts alleged, i.e. , "providing routine financial services to members and associates of terrorist organizations," was "not so akin to providing a loaded gun to a child as to ... compel a finding that as a matter of law, the services were violent or life-endangering acts that appeared intended to coerce civilians or to influence or affect government." Linde ,
The Second Circuit remanded the Linde case for the jury to determine whether the § 2331(1) requirements were satisfied without finding that defendant Arab Bank did not satisfy the § 2331(1) requirements as a matter of law.
Without guidance from the Second Circuit as to the types of activities that would constitute violent acts or acts dangerous to human life, the Court looks to the plain language of the statute. Black's Law Dictionary offers three definitions of 'violent': (1) "[o]f, relating to, or characterized by strong physical force;" (2) "[r]esulting from extreme or intense force;" and (3) "[v]ehemently or passionately threatening." Violent , Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014). Black's Law Dictionary offers two definitions of 'dangerous': (1) "( [o]f a condition, situation, etc.) perilous; hazardous; unsafe;" and (2) "( [o]f a person, an object, etc.) likely to cause serious bodily harm." Dangerous,
While the evidence Plaintiffs rely upon is sufficient to demonstrate a triable issue of fact as to whether Defendant provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization in violation of § 2339B, the evidence does not warrant a trial as to whether Defendant's activities involved violent acts or acts dangerous to human life as required under § 2331(1). Plaintiffs' reliance on the fact that the 13 Charities were controlled by Hamas founders, without more, is insufficient to prove that Defendant's activities were violent or endangered human life. Indeed, Plaintiffs offer no evidence, and their experts do not opine, that the 13 Charities participated in, planned, trained the perpetrators of, requested that someone carry out, or were the cause of the attacks giving rise to Plaintiffs' claims. Plaintiffs identify no transfers from Interpal to the 13 Charities as payments meant to involve a violent act or an act dangerous to human life. Similarly, the fact that Interpal and the Union of Good were designated as SDGTs alone is insufficient to satisfy the violent act or act dangerous to human life prong of § 2331(1).
Plaintiffs contend that Defendant's banking services to Interpal and the 13 Charities contributed to terrorism merely because those organizations engage in terroristic *235activity. See , Opp. at 8-9. Plaintiffs' assertions address Defendant's indirect contribution, through banking services, to terrorist activities without establishing any nexus between the banking services and the terrorist activities. Plaintiffs offer no evidence that Defendant's banking services directly involved strong physical force, or intense force, or vehement or passionate threats. Plaintiffs also do not offer evidence sufficient to create a factual dispute as to whether Defendant's banking services directly involved peril or hazard or were likely to cause serious bodily harm.
Thus, Defendant's motion for summary judgment as to the violent acts and acts dangerous to human life prong of § 2331(1) is granted because Plaintiffs fail to present evidence sufficient to create a jury question as to whether Defendant's activities involved violent acts or acts dangerous to human life.
B. Terroristic Intent
The terrorist intent prong of § 2331(1) requires that Defendant's actions "appear to be intended to (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping."
Plaintiffs rely on evidence tending to show that Defendant provided material support to a terrorist organization to argue that an issue of fact exists as to whether Defendant had the requisite terroristic intent under § 2331. Plaintiffs rely on evidence that Defendant knowingly provided financial services to a designated FTO, which satisfies that scienter requirement under § 2339. See , Opp. at 13-15 (discussing an RBS consent order that detailed its efforts to evade U.S sanctions against State Sponsors of Terrorism and an OFAC Settlement Agreement in which OFAC found that Defendant cleared U.S. dollars on behalf of an SDGT and its subsidiary and evaded U.S. sanctions). However, the scienter requirement of the predicate material support statute is not the same as the definitional requirements of terroristic intent in § 2331(1). See , Linde ,
In Linde the Second Circuit provided an example of an action that would constitute material support and satisfy the requirements for international terrorism as defined by § 2331(1) :
Most obviously, a person who voluntarily acts as a suicide bomber for Hamas in Israel can thereby provide material support to that terrorist organization while also committing an act of terrorism himself. The suicide bombing is unquestionably a violent act whose apparent intent is to intimidate civilians or influence government.
Accordingly, Defendant's summary judgment motion as to the terroristic intent prong of § 2331(1) is granted because there is no material issue of fact as to whether Defendant's activities appeared to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.
II. Plaintiffs' Aiding and Abetting Claims
Although Judge Sifton dismissed Plaintiffs' aiding and abetting claims in 2006, Plaintiffs contend that they properly have asserted an aiding and abetting claim by including a claim pursuant to § 2333(d) in the proposed joint pretrial order, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 391, filed on March 8, 2018. See , Opp. at 16. Defendant argues that this Court already dismissed Plaintiffs' aiding and abetting claim, and that Plaintiffs have not sought to replead any such claim. See , Mot. at 3, 20-21. Defendant further contends that, even if the Court permits Plaintiffs to plead an aiding and abetting claim, Defendant is entitled to summary judgment on that claim. See , Id. at 20-24.
A. The Joint Pretrial Order
In the proposed joint pretrial order, Plaintiffs allege that Defendant is liable under § 2333(d) for aiding and abetting a person or entity who committed an attack committed, planned, or authorized by a FTO. See, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 391 at 3-6. Specifically, Plaintiffs allege that:
(1) Hamas was responsible for the attacks that injured the Plaintiffs; (2) Defendant provided substantial assistance to Hamas for its terrorist activities, including these attacks, by transferring significant sums of money to organizations that it knew (or consciously avoided knowing) were controlled by Hamas; and (3) Defendant's acts were a substantial factor in causing the Plaintiffs' injuries and those injuries were a reasonably foreseeable result of the significant sums of money Defendant sent to Hamas.
Id. at 5 (footnote omitted). Plaintiffs concede that the Court dismissed Plaintiffs' common law aiding and abetting claim previously, but they allege that, because JASTA expressly is retroactive, § 2333(d) provides a new and superseding legal basis for Plaintiffs' aiding and abetting claims, and that Halberstam is "the proper legal framework" for such claims. Id. (citing Linde ,
*237Plaintiffs argue that they are entitled to proceed on the aiding and abetting claims alleged in the proposed joint pretrial order because Rule 16(d) "provides that a pretrial order controls the course of the action, and such an action supersedes the pleadings." Opp. at 16, n.18 (quotations and citations omitted). Plaintiffs offer that, should the Court prefer that Plaintiffs assert their § 2333(d) claims by amending their complaint rather than through a pretrial order, Plaintiffs would comply.
As a threshold matter, the Court must decide whether it will permit Plaintiffs to include an aiding and abetting claim under § 2333(d) in the pretrial order even though Plaintiffs have not included the statutory claim in the pleadings. While a pretrial order does supersede all prior pleadings and controls the subsequent course of the action, See , Rockwell International Corp. v. United States ,
The Court instead will consider whether it grants Plaintiffs leave to amend their complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) even though Plaintiffs ask for this relief only in the alternative to the Court's acceptance of the claim in the pretrial order, and fashions the request as a cross-motion in a footnote in the opposition, but does not attach a proposed amended complaint. See , Opp. at 16, n.18 ("Should the Court prefer that Plaintiffs assert their § 2333(d) claims by amended their complaints rather than through the Joint Pre-Trial Order, they will of course do so.").
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) provides that a party shall be given leave to amend "when justice so requires."
Here, a June 1, 2016 order set the deadline, June 17, 2016, for Plaintiffs to file the operative amended complaints. See , June 1, 2016 Order. Although Plaintiffs met that deadline by filing Amended Complaints on June 17, 2016, See , Amended Complaint, Weiss Dkt. Entry No. 345, and Amended Complaint, Applebaum , Dkt. Entry No. 218, Plaintiffs could not have included their JASTA claims in the amended complaints because Congress enacted JASTA over three months later on September 28, 2016. "A finding of good cause depends on the diligence of the moving party." Grochowski v. Phoenix Constr. ,
*238Nonetheless, Defendant argues that Plaintiffs should not be able to raise these claims because Judge Sifton addressed them in Weiss I . See , Mot. at 21. However, Judge Sifton dismissed Plaintiffs' common law aiding and abetting claims, but did not, and could not address Plaintiffs' statutory aiding and abetting claims under JASTA as the statute did not exist at the time. See , Owens v. BNP Paribas, S.A. ,
B. Summary Judgment on Plaintiffs' § 2333(d) Claims
Finally, Defendant maintains that, even if the Court were to permit Defendant to amend its complaint to include an aiding and abetting claim under JASTA, the amendment would be futile because Defendant would be entitled to summary judgment as to that claim. See , Opp. at 21-24. As a general matter, a Rule 12(b)(6) motion is the benchmark for determining whether amendment is futile. See , Lucente v. International Business Machines Corp. ,
Plaintiffs cannot demonstrate that Defendant had the requisite knowledge required by JASTA. As explained in Linde , "[a]iding an abetting requires the secondary actor to be 'aware' that, by assisting *239the principal, it is itself assuming a 'role' in terrorist activities." Linde ,
Plaintiffs again rely on evidence that tends to support a finding that Defendant had the requisite scienter required for providing material support to a terrorist organization under § 2339B to support their claim that Defendant had the requisite scienter for aiding and abetting liability under JASTA. See , Opp. at 24-25 (discussing Defendant's "massive, illicit funds transfers" for Interpal and the Union of Good). However, as discussed in detail above, Plaintiffs present no evidence that creates a jury question as to whether Defendant generally was aware that it played a role in any of Hamas's or even Interpal's or the Union of Good's violent or life-endangering activities. Evidence that Defendant knowingly provided banking services to a terrorist organization, without more, is insufficient to satisfy JASTA's scienter requirement.
Plaintiffs' proposed JASTA aiding and abetting claim cannot survive summary judgment. Accordingly, such amendment would be futile and Plaintiffs' motion for leave to amend the complaint is denied with prejudice.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, Defendant's summary judgment motion as to Plaintiffs' remaining claims of civil liability under the ATA is granted in its entirety. Plaintiffs' motion for leave to amend the complaint to add a claim under JASTA is denied. Accordingly, this action is dismissed.
SO ORDERED.
The Court assumes familiarity with the facts and circumstances underlying this action, which are summarized more fully in the Court's previous orders. See, e.g. , Weiss v. National Westminster Bank PLC ("Weiss II "),
By order dated December 27, 2007, Weiss and Applebaum were formally consolidated for pretrial proceedings. Citations to the "Weiss Docket" or "Weiss " are to Weiss v. National Westminster Bank PLC , 05-CV-4622. Citations to the "Applebaum Docket" or "Applebaum " are to Applebaum v. National Westminster Bank PLC , 07-CV-916. Where documents have been filed on both dockets, the Court cites to the Weiss Docket only, as the lead case.
Defendant refers to 15 attacks because, at the time of the experts' concessions, Plaintiffs' claims arose from 15 attacks between March 27, 2002 and September 24, 2004 that Plaintiffs allege were perpetrated by Hamas. See , Pls.' Resp. to 2011 56.1 Stmt. ¶ 241. After this Court's decision in Weiss IV , Plaintiffs' claims now arise out of 16 attacks. See , Weiss IV ,
The Expert Report of Dr. Matthew Levitt refers only to twelve of the 13 Charities. See , Mot. at 12, n.8.
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