| In Suit
Against Cairo
Amman Bank For
Hamas Briefing
Due on Supreme
Court Twitter
Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 15 –
Julie
Averbach sued
Cairo Amman
Bank for
allegedly
helping Hamas,
by
transferring
its and its
leaders' money
through
JPMorgan
Chase, BNY
Mellon and
Standard
Chartered
Bank; it had a
correspondent
banking
relationship
with
Citibank.
On
January 19,
2023 U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge
Katharine H.
Parker held a
proceeding.
Inner City
Press covered
it.
The
complaint
describes a
Hamas bombing
in Jerusalem.
On
January 19,
Judge Parker
ordered that
the plaintiffs
must provide
the defendants
with an
updated chart
of
transactions.
Jump
cut 20 months
forward to
August 15,
2024, another
conference,
which Inner
City Press
covered, thread
Judge:
It has been
raised how the
Twitter
decision on
aiding and
abetting
impacts this
case.
Cairo
Amman Bank's
lawyer: We
anticipate the
plaintiffs'
filing a third
amended
complaint.
Judge:
Discovery?
CAB's lawyer:
One of our
experts has a
death in the
family Cairo
Amman Bank's
lawyer: Some
we need to
reach are in
areas that are
hard to reach
right now...
Plaintiffs'
lawyer: We
prefer to
brief the
Twitter v.
Taamneh issues
just once, on
a Rule 56
motion.
Judge:
File a
proposed new
schedule next
week.
The
case is
Averbach et al
v. Cairo Amman
Bank, 19-cv-4
(Woods /
Parker)
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