by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 5 - For the UN's role in Hamas' October 7 attacks, non-US citizen plaintiffs and estates on June 24 filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, Pierre Krahenbuhl, Filippo Grandi, Leni Stenseth, Sandra Mitchel, Margot Ellis and Greta Gunnarsdottir. They have moved to dismiss.
Meanwhile, in other post-October 7 litigation, on February 5 SDNY Judge John P. Cronan issued a 56-page Order denying "Cooper Union’s motion as to Rebecca Gartenberg’s civil rights claims and a portion of her contract claim, grants the motion as to other portions of her contract claim and as to her common law tort claims, and declin[ing] to strike her requests for punitive damages and injunctive relief."
Some background: "after the October 25 walk-out, the demonstrators stormed into the Foundation Building, shoving past the campus security guards standing watch. After first attempting to locate Cooper Union’s president, the mob descended on the building’s library, where a group of students wearing recognizably Jewish attire were sheltering behind locked doors... Rebecca Gartenberg and a group of other Jewish Cooper Union students allege that they suffered a hostile educational environment on the basis of their national origin... Cooper Union now moves to dismiss Gartenberg’s Complaint in full for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and to strike her requests for punitive damages and injunctive relief."
The case is Gartenberg, et al., v. Cooper Union, 1:24-cv-2669 (Cronan)
Inner City Press, which daily cover the SDNY court in-person and the UN from outside the gate, banned from entry by SG Antonio Guterres, asked Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming about the lawsuit, without any response per usual.
Nor have they responded to Inner City Press' June 19 application to enter the UN to ask these questions.
The UNRWA case is ESTATE OF TAMAR KEDEM SIMAN TOV, BY HEIR-AT-LAW GAD KEDEM v. UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY (UNRWA) et al., 24-cv-04765 (Torres)
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