West Virginia AG Joins Coalition Seeking Frozen Taliban Funds for 9/11 Victims

McCuskey files SCOTUS brief urging frozen Taliban funds go to Sept. 11 victims, families

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey, along with attorneys general from 31 other states, filed a friend of the court brief at the U.S. Supreme Court to seek financial judgments on behalf of victims and family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. According to Attorney General McCuskey's [...]

West Virginia AG joins coalition seeking frozen Taliban funds for 9/11 victims

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey has joined a bipartisan coalition of 31 state attorneys general urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and their families to pursue billions…

NC AG Jeff Jackson joins 30 states urging Supreme Court to back 9/11 victims

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and attorneys general from 30 other states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that prevents billi

31 US States Back 9/11 Victims Seeking $3.5 Billion in Frozen Afghanistan Assets for Compensation

Iowa and 30 other US states have urged the US Supreme Court to review a case involving about $3.5 billion in Afghanistan central-bank assets that victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks are seeking to use to satisfy court judgments against the Kabul administration. The states filed an amicus brief on October 5 in support of a petition by 9/11 victims and their families, arguing that US law allows assets belonging to a party responsible for ter…

Iowa leads push to give 9/11 families $3.5B in Taliban funds

The states represented in the coalition have citizens who were among the nearly 3,000 people murdered on September 11, 2001.

Thirty US states seek access to Afghan assets for 9/11 victims

The attorneys general of 30 US states have asked the US Supreme Court to review a case involving around $3.5 billion in frozen assets of Da Afghanistan Bank that victims and families of the September 11 attacks are seeking to use for compensation. The Iowa Attorney General’s Office said in a statement on Monday that the states filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of the victims and their families, who have obtained compensation judgme…