U.S. appeals court reinstates terrorism lawsuit against Saudi Arabia for shooting rampage at Pensacola Naval Air Station



Escambia County Sheriff's Office dashcam video of the response to the Dec. 6, 2019 shooting at Pensacola NAS.

By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

A federal appeals court in Atlanta Monday reinstated a lawsuit that seeks to hold Saudi Arabia responsible for the deadly terrorist shooting six years ago at the Pensacola Naval Air Station by a pilot trainee in the Saudi Royal Air Force.

The three-judge panel unanimously held that claims of gross negligence against the Kingdom by relatives of three dead U.S. Navy servicemen and 13 others who were seriously wounded in the Dec. 6, 2019 attack are legitimate under one of the exceptions to foreign sovereign immunity created when Congress enacted the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act [JASTA] in 2016.

“These claims are facially sufficient because they are based on a series of acts of commission (rather than acts of omission) taken by the Kingdom in hiring and vetting [Airman Mohammad Saeed] Al-Shamrani that rose to the level of gross negligence under Florida law,” wrote Judge Stanley Marcus of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Joining in the opinion were Judges Jill Pryor and Britt Grant.




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