Federal appeals court reinstates USS Cole bombing lawsuit

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that families of 17 sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole may file a second suit to collect $282 million in damages. The court reversed the ruling by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] that the previous judgment [JURIST report] under the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA) precluded an action against the Republic...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/federal-appeals-court-reinstates-uss-cole-bombing-lawsuit.php

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