| Post Oct 7 Cooper
Union May Be Liable for
Punitives as UNRWA Moves to
Dismiss Case
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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