U.S. Republican senators led by Ted Cruz, R-Texas, have introduced a bill to strip international organizations’ immunity from lawsuits that provide material support to designated terror groups that commit violent acts against Americans.
The Limiting Immunity for Assisting Backers of Lethal Extremism (LIABLE) Act would allow American victims of terrorism to sue international organizations that provide resources to terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. It would amend title 28 of U.S. Code to state that international organizations do not have immunity in U.S. courts in certain cases related to terrorism under the International Organization Immunity Act (IOIA) “in which money damages are sought against an international organization for personal injury or death that was caused by an act of torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft sabotage, hostage taking, or the provision of material support or resources for such an act if such act or provision of material support or resources is engaged in by an official, employee, or agent of such international organization while acting within the scope of his or her office, employment, or agency,” according to the bill language.
