From yesterday's Eleventh Circuit decision by Judge Stanley Marcus, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Britt Grant, in Watson v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia :

This violent and tragic case arose out of a shooting rampage involving Royal Saudi Air Force ("RSAF") Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Al-Shamrani … at Pensacola Naval Air Station … on December 6, 2019. The shooting resulted in [three deaths and serious injuries to many others] ….

[W]e agree that most of the Plaintiffs' [survivors' and victims' families'] claims were properly dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act …. {These claims fail either because they fall within discretionary functions that are immune from suit; they are bas

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