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Federal judge rejects American Muslims for Palestine motion to dismiss decades-old terror-financing case
The family of teenager David Boim is seeking to collect $156 million from groups alleged to have provided funding to Hamas
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Joyce and Stanley Boim get into a cab outside federal court in Chicago in this Dec. 8, 2004, after three Islamic charities and an alleged fund-raiser for Hamas were ordered to pay $156 million to the parents, whose 17-year-old son, David, was shot and killed by terrorists in 1996.
A federal judge in Illinois rejected a motion for dismissal by defendants in a decades-old legal fight waged by the family of a slain Jewish teenager, whose parents allege that the defendants had, under other identities, provided funding to...