US Supreme Court Rules for Pharmaceutical Companies in Terrorism-Funding Case

The justices threw out a lower court ruling that said the companies could be held liable for funding terrorism.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on June 20, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 ruled in favor of AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical companies that were sued over allegedly funding terrorism.

The nation’s top court granted the companies’ bid to throw out a lower court ruling that found plaintiffs who sued the companies supported “an inference that defendants aided and abetted acts of international terrorism.”