(Pensacola News Journal) A federal judge in Pensacola dismissed the lawsuit filed against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the 2019 terrorist attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola that claimed the lives of three sailors.
The lawsuit dismissal was granted after Judge M. Casey Rodgers agreed U.S. courts had no jurisdiction to settle the complaint under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976. Attorneys for Saudi Arabia said the shooting, which was perpetrated by a Royal Saudi Air Force 2nd lieutenant training at NAS Pensacola, was a “rogue act.”
“Saudi Arabia deplores the Pensacola attack and expresses its deep condolences to the victims and their families,” Saudi attorneys wrote in their motion to dismiss. “But there is no legal basis for this court to exercise subject-matter or personal jurisdiction over plaintiff’s claims against Saudi Arabia arising from that attack.”
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