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- 摘要
- 最高法院允许针对巴勒斯坦当局提起诉讼
- 原告于2015年获得6.555亿美元赔偿判决
- 他们因2002-2004年耶路撒冷枪击与爆炸事件提起诉讼
8月3日（路透社）——美国最高法院大法官索尼娅·索托马约尔当地时间周一拒绝暂停6.555亿美元的损害赔偿判决，该判决要求巴勒斯坦当局在一桩美国民事案件中向原告支付赔偿，此案涉及2002年至2004年以色列境内造成美国人死伤的袭击事件。
索托马约尔驳回了巴勒斯坦权力机构和巴勒斯坦解放组织提出的暂缓执行该判决的请求，这些巴勒斯坦机构目前正在就下级法院在该案被驳回多年后重启审理的裁决提起上诉。这起诉讼代表在耶路撒冷地区枪击与爆炸事件中死伤的美国人提起。
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美国最高法院去年曾裁定一项联邦法律合宪，该法律允许原告提起此类诉讼。
索托马约尔未对其裁决作出解释，也未将此案提交全院审理。索托马约尔负责处理源自纽约州及其他部分州的紧急案件。
总部位于曼哈顿的美国第二巡回上诉法院于今年3月恢复了该判决，此前美国最高法院在2025年6月以9票全票通过的裁决，支持了2019年通过的《促进恐怖主义受害者安全与正义法案》。
巴勒斯坦相关机构表示，执行该案的赔偿判决将造成严重的经济损失，破坏约旦河西岸政府服务的稳定性，损害当地居民利益并危及地区安全。
他们在一份书面文件中表示，原告打算从以色列代收的巴勒斯坦间接税收收入中追讨赔偿，而这笔税收是巴勒斯坦政府运作的主要资金来源。约旦河西岸的安全、卫生与学校服务“命悬一线”，他们写道。
原告于2015年在纽约联邦法院赢得该判决，他们指控巴勒斯坦相关机构应对2002年至2004年的袭击事件负责。
美国第二巡回上诉法院曾在2016年驳回该判决，下令驳回此案，认定审理该案的联邦法官对此案没有管辖权。美国最高法院在2018年拒绝受理该案的上诉。
随后美国国会在2019年通过该项法律，以方便针对巴勒斯坦当局提起诉讼。根据该法律，如果巴解组织和巴勒斯坦权力机构在美国开展特定活动，或向袭击美国人的人员支付款项，将自动“同意”接受美国法院的管辖。
美国第二巡回上诉法院此前曾裁定，2019年的这项法律违反了巴勒斯坦当局在美国宪法下应享有的正当程序权利。但美国最高法院去年推翻了这一裁决。
在最高法院作出上述裁决后，美国第二巡回上诉法院恢复了对原告有利的赔偿判决。
巴勒斯坦当局敦促最高法院暂停执行赔偿判决，称该判决早已失效，属于“无效判决”。
“本案所涉金钱判决在……2018年上诉程序终结时就已成为法律上的无效判决，”他们说道。
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US Supreme Court won’t halt $655 million judgment against Palestinians over attacks
2026-08-03T20:55:48.762Z / Reuters
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- Summary
- Supreme Court allowed suits against Palestinian authorities
- Plaintiffs won a $655.5 million judgment in 2015
- They sued over 2002-2004 Jerusalem shootings and bombings
August 3 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined on Monday to halt $655.5 million in damages that Palestinian authorities were ordered to pay plaintiffs in a U.S. civil lawsuit concerning attacks that killed and injured Americans in Israel from 2002 to 2004.
Sotomayor denied a request by the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to put on hold the judgment while they appeal a lower court’s decision to revive the case years after it had been dismissed. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Americans killed or injured in those shootings and bombings in the Jerusalem area.
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The Supreme Court last year upheld a federal law that allowed claims like those brought by the plaintiffs in the case.
Sotomayor did not explain her decision and did not refer the case to the entire court. Sotomayor handles emergency matters for cases arising from New York and certain other states.
The Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the judgment in March following the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision in June 2025 to uphold the 2019 law, called the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act.
The Palestinian organizations said that enforcing the judgment in the case will cause severe financial harm and destabilize government services in the West Bank, harming people who live there and jeopardizing regional security.
They said in a written filing that the plaintiffs intend to seek payment from indirect Palestinian tax revenue collected by Israel, a key source of funding for Palestinian government operations. Security, sanitation and school services in the West Bank “are hanging by a thread,” they wrote.
The plaintiffs, in winning the judgment in New York federal court in 2015, alleged that the Palestinian entities were responsible for the incidents from 2002 to 2004.
The 2nd Circuit threw out that verdict in 2016 and ordered that the case be dismissed, concluding that the federal judge in the case did not have jurisdiction over the matter. The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case in 2018.
Congress then passed the 2019 law to facilitate lawsuits against Palestinian authorities. Under the law, the PLO and Palestinian Authority automatically “consent” to jurisdiction if they conduct certain activities in the United States or make payments to people who attack Americans.
The 2nd Circuit subsequently decided that the 2019 law violated the rights of these Palestinian authorities to due process under the U.S. Constitution. But the Supreme Court overturned that ruling last year.
Following that Supreme Court action, the 2nd Circuit resurrected the judgment for the plaintiffs.
The Palestinian authorities urged the Supreme Court to halt the payment for now, saying the judgment had long become void and a “nullity.”
“The money judgment at issue became a legal nullity when … appeals were exhausted in 2018,” they said.
Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham
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