Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is liable for damages for '93 terrorist attack

NEW YORK: The verdict was clear, but it also contained what appeared, at first glance anyway, some weird moral arithmetic. A state appellate court ruled last week that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is liable for damages to those killed or injured in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.

Please note, the court was speaking of the attack on the World Trade Center of Feb. 26, 1993, when a group of terrorists managed to drive an explosives-packed rented van into the basement parking garage of the trade center, blast a crater six stories deep, kill six people and injure many others. That is not the deadliest terrorist assault in New York history only because of the one that came on Sept. 11, 2001.

So the decision had to do with a case dating back 15 years, which already raises questions about the incredible slowness of justice in this very litigious country. And the case isn't done yet. The appellate ruling, which upheld a jury's verdict three years ago, will now be followed by trials on behalf of individual plaintiffs. Those could go on another year or more.

The jury had come up with a sort of arithmetic of responsibility to decide who was to blame and for how much. It determined that the Port Authority was 68 percent responsible for the attack, while the terrorists were responsible for 32 percent.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/07/america/letter.php
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is liable for damages for '93 terrorist attack

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is liable for damages for '93 terrorist attack

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