Supreme Court to Consider Reviving $4 Billion Terror Award Against Sudan
The US embassy in Nariobi, Kenya, after it was bombed in 1998.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider reviving a $4.3 billion punitive damage award against Sudan for providing al-Qaeda with a haven while the terrorist group planned the 1998 bombings outside the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The award came in a lawsuit on behalf of more than 150 U.S. government employees and contractors who were killed or injured, as well as hundreds of family members. The punitive damages are part of a $10.2 billion award they won when Sudan didn’t defend against a lawsuit filed in Washington.